Transcript of JuJu Predicts the NBA Finals Matchup | Postgame Show

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Dave Damashek does a great job with Football America. It'll be on here on our YouTube channel at 12:45 Eastern if you want to watch it. He is doing that live on Mondays. We're going to get to Juju in just a second. You guys have been talking about the Nathan Fielder movie. You can see everything, but we played a while for you a trailer for Whalefall, which is instead of a shark movie is a whale movie. And while I've heard this slogan before, Do you guys like or dislike the slogan that's attached to Whalefall, which is, you'll pay for the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge of it?

Legit goosebumps. Look, confirmed. Confirmed.

He does have goosebumps.

Confirmed. A lot of good movies out.

A lot of good movies. What is the critical claim or otherwise for Whalefall? Because I like the premise of it. High. But it has the potential to be really bad as well.

It's getting received warmly.

70% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is way higher than I would have anticipated for something called Whalefall.

I'll take a chance on anything 70% or higher.

81% audience score.

And that's— but that is about my cutoff. I've got to be pretty desperate to go under 70%.

Boy, do I have a podcast for you then.

No, you've got the opposite of a podcast for me. I don't want your Cinephobe podcast. The Rewatchables. It's— what is it, only under 40%? Is that all you do?

Under 40% on either critics or audience reviews.

All right, let's get caught up here with Juju. Juju, do you have a top 5 for us today? What is that? What is happening? What are you— what are you counting money for? Wait a minute. Those bills look a little bit larger than normal bills. What is that?

Excuse me. Pardon me. I'm counting up my Thursday Thunder wins because it cashed last week. Salute to everybody who locked in. We finally back on top, baby. What were you saying, Dan? I'm so sorry.

That's okay. I was asking you if you had any top 5s for us today that we were getting to before we get to the polls, before we get to stats of the day. What do you have for us? on the top 5 front?

Oh man, with the NBA season right around the corner and my brother Amin El-Hassan in the building to help me out with some of this, I got a top 5. Trust me, don't trust me about the upcoming NBA season. Let's go.

All right, like it. Any OLI? Oh, right, right to it.

Yes sir, right to it, man. Number 5, the Utah Jazz, for the first time in history, gonna be aight, man.

Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. You don't like that, Dan? Well, the reason I don't like it is because Amin told me that 2 years ago the Jazz had the worst defense statistically in the history of the league, and then last year they had a worse defense than what their defense was 2 years ago. Uh, do you agree with him

that they're gonna be all right?

Yes.

Yeah, I agree. They're gonna be all right as long as everyone's healthy. But I agree with Juju. Jaren Jackson's gonna make a huge difference. So is Darren Peterson. This is a team that is for the first time going to try to not be awful. And so I think they're going to be all right. Well, how do you say it, Drew? They're going to be all right.

They're going to be all right, man. Deontay George, better than people think he is. Ace Bailey. And they got the GOAT, Bryson Sabal. If you know, you know. Number 4, brother, everybody in the West is going to regret letting the Oklahoma City Thunder take Adeyemara.

Well, thank you. Thank you.

Brother, they got a healthy Jalen Williams coming back. They got Kayson Wallace reed up. Now they got the 2-timer MVP in the, in the building. I mean, am I tripping? I think that's gonna get them over the potential hump they was gonna face.

I think so too. I mean, I still have the Thunder as the best team, uh, in basketball. But Juju, is Adeyemara gonna get to play? Because you know his old, old, old flame They walked in the door and said, hold up, I have a contract with this young man. We's together and we're not going to have any sort of bigamy around here. Know about that bigamy? Put it on the poll, @LebertardShow, you know about that bigamy? And also put on the poll, is Bryce Sensible the GOAT?

Oh yeah. Number 3, Melo, Ant-Man, and the Wolves are going to be the Buffalo Bills of the NBA. Well, thank you, man. Thank

you.

Oh, will they win the championship? Who knows? Who gives a damn? Kind of each and every single game is going to be must-see TV. You mentioned—

you mentioned— we'll get to Amin in a second here. You mentioned LaMelo and you called him Mello, and it made me think Carmelo. You guys saw Carmelo called Pablo Torre a snitch. Do we have any thoughts on that, Amin? Do we have any thoughts on Carmelo Anthony calling Pablo Torre a snitch?

He's just basically doing the, hey, why you hatin' on a good time? Basically.

That's a great quote. Get out of here with that journalism shit.

Dan, do you know about that local Minnesota broadcast team? It is perhaps the best broadcast team in the history of basketball. They've got nothing but national people working on the whole thing.

I didn't know about that. Number 2.

Number 2, Christmas. Come on now. Well, thank you.

Well, thank you.

And number 1, the NBA Finals this year will be against the Oklahoma City Thunder from the West, and they will be playing your Miami Heat in the championship this season. Book it!

Hey, start of the day, it is your start of the day. Star of the day, star of the day, it is the star of the day. Star of the day, star of the day, it is the star of the day. Star of the day, star of the day, it is the star of the day.

JJ McCarthy had more passing yards in the 4th quarter on Sunday than Justin Herbert has had in an entire game all It's a

good stat. And I do believe that it is possible that Mike McDaniel gets fired before the end of the day today. Do you have any jokers of the weekend, clowns of the weekend, awards of the weekend, anything from the weekend that we're celebrating or mocking?

Yes, sir. So usually I give the jokers of the weekend to somebody who did something hilarious that's still within the game and you can count it as a blunder or a— what do they call it? A blooper, if you will. But these 2 don't deserve that. These are the clowns of the weekend. Number 1, Duke player Kamani Robinson, or Kamari Robinson, swiping away the trainer when she put her hands on you. How dare you, sir? What is wrong with you? What, what is going on?

He put out like a whole long apology. Obviously, it's— he sounds super embarrassed about it. As he should be.

As he should be. Jeremy, what you got, bruh?

I just can't believe that that's something that a football player would do. Like, you, you are seeing your medical staff out there taking care of your fellow teammate, you're gonna swipe her away?

He said the kid who was on the ground is a very close friend of his.

And he's just super emotional?

He was really worried and like didn't want anybody telling him to go away. Like, this feels wild. But he, he put out a really big apology. Yo, no way! Get out of the

way. Yeah, right.

And, and secondly, I gotta do— we gotta hold ourselves accountable. Buffalo Bills player CJ GJ spitting in the direction of Brock Bowers, brother. That's the ultimate disrespect, bro. Slap me in my face, you spit on me, that's a whole different ball game. Shame on you, brother. Sit down for a week or two after that one.

First one since Bill Romanowski.

No, we've had it more.

I remember last week, last year. Yeah, from the Eagles when he spit on Dak Prescott. He did a whole song about it.

I think it was Jalen Carter, wasn't it?

And didn't, didn't Ja'Marr Chase do it last year too? There was a wide receiver did it too.

By all accounts, horrible person. But that's a cool nickname, man. Romo Cop. That was a cool-ass nickname.

Didn't, didn't CJ Gardner-Johnson do it right in front of the referee too? Like, wasn't it right in front of the referee? Like, there was no discretion there. He's going to— he's not only going to get suspended for that game, I think he's going to lose another game.

I, I could see them actually cutting him. I, I think there's a chance they cut him.

They're so weak in the secondary though. Don't they need— they need, they need all the help they can get. Matthew Berry was telling you—

You have to do more than that.

He has the spit on Josh Allen's face in order to— they really need their secondary. They're terrible.

Uh, hell yeah, man.

Do you— any other clowns of the weekend, or does that pretty much cover it, right?

Those are clowns of the weekend. But also, I like to just say this: expedited review, replay assistant, virtual measurement— out of my face. I'm done with it. Just— I don't, I don't care about you anymore. You use it biasedly. I don't like it. Get it out of my face.

The virtual measurement— I like the virtual measurement. I can't believe that we've had this technology for a long time and we still had people measuring things with chains. They don't even allow that.

The virtual measurement— the virtual measurement is where the referee put it. The other day we had a virtual measurement. It was short. Then the coach challenged the spot of the virtual measurement. I'm like, okay, out of my face. Give them the ball. Whoever ball it is, give it to them now because I'm about to turn the TV off.

@Le Batard Show on the polls. And don't forget for tomorrow to put on there Bryce Sensabaugh. Is he the GOAT for tomorrow? I want to get that on there. I want to— it's important that we get that tomorrow. What do we have today?

Are the University of Miami's RPOs sexually graphic? 70% of the audience says yes, they are.

And by the way, I'm right.

Do we need to deprogram ourselves? 93% of the audience says yes, we do.

And by the way, I'm right.

Yes, you was, Zazz. Is the cornerback sheathing a sword or fastening a seatbelt, Dan? This is why you need young homeboys or somebody in your life, man. 61%— what? This is low. 61% of the audience says fastening a seatbelt.

And by the way, I'm right. What percentage said sledgehammer? Right.

And you know what, Zazz, you was right about your take of the day. I should have gave you an award for this. You said the 49ers didn't lose because they were jet-lagged. The 49ers— no, the Rams didn't lose to the 49ers because they was jet-lagged. You lost to them because you were ass. Salute to you, brother.

And by the way, I'm right. Thank you.

Is Justin Herbert— if Justin Herbert won the next 5 Super Bowls, would he be better than Tom Brady? 81% of the audience says no, he would not.

And by the way, I'm right.

And last poll, what's a magazine? 71% of the audience says yes. And those are your polls.

And by the way, I'm right.

Thank you, Juju. If you are watching us on YouTube, stick around here. Football America is next. If you are listening on the podcast, that probably doesn't make much sense. Bye-bye.