Postgame Show: Hali Questionable (feat. Juju Gotti)

Summary

Episode Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz — Postgame Show: Hali Questionable (feat. Juju Gotti)
Release Date: May 27, 2025

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Corrections and Clarifications
The episode kicks off with Greg Cody addressing several corrections before diving into the main discussions. At [00:33], Greg clarifies that the 2023 Albert Brooks HBO documentary was directed by Rob Reiner, not Judd Apatow. He further corrects his earlier statement about Joe Rose, noting, “Joe Rose's 345 receiving yards in 1983 was 20th among tight ends” ([00:33]). Joe Rose acknowledges the correction, adding humor to the situation by stating he had already amended his mistake ([01:09]).

NBA Playoffs Analysis
The primary focus of the episode centers around the NBA playoffs, with hosts Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cody, and guest Juju Gotti providing in-depth analysis. Greg Cody introduces Juju Gotti, highlighting the addition of their YouTube segment, Alley Oop, which airs live after every NBA playoff game. This segment aims to offer a fresh and entertaining perspective on the games.

At [04:54], Juju delves into the performance of key players, emphasizing Chet Holmgren’s pivotal role. He praises Holmgren, stating, “Without Chet last night, that game might have been in peril” ([04:54]). The discussion shifts to Anthony Edwards, with Greg challenging Edwards' defensive performance: “If a defense of a team doesn't allow you to do something you want, then you struggled” ([06:38]). The hosts debate Edwards' capabilities and the overall impact of Oklahoma City’s defense on the games.

Player Performances and Team Strategies
The conversation highlights Anthony Edwards’ contributions, with Juju noting Edwards scored 16 points in a crucial game ([05:47]). However, Greg points out the defensive strategies of Oklahoma City, arguing that their team defense often compensates for individual performances: “That's how they won 68 games” ([07:23]). Stugotz adds to the discussion by questioning Edwards' current status as a great player, although Greg and Joe affirm his greatness with slight reservations about his recent performances.

Betting Insights and Predictions
Juju Gotti shares his betting experiences, humorously admitting, “the team that I bet on always loses” ([03:39]). This candid admission is met with light-hearted banter from Greg, who later discusses the intricacies of betting on NBA games. The hosts analyze the Dallas Stars vs. Edmonton Oilers matchup, with a DraftKings segment predicting an Oilers victory ([02:15]).

Audience Engagement and Polls
Throughout the episode, the hosts interact with their audience through polls, adding an engaging layer to the discussion. Topics range from the quality of dad jokes to the difficulty of defeating the Carolina Hurricanes. For instance, the poll reveals that 56% of the audience disagrees that dad jokes are intentionally terrible ([12:32]). Another poll shows that 80% believe there are more Starbucks than CVS stores ([12:55]). These interactive elements keep the conversation lively and inclusive.

Humorous Interactions and Banter
Humor is a staple of the show, with the hosts frequently exchanging jokes and playful remarks. Greg Cody suggests a show title, “Halle Questionable,” referencing Tyrese and John Halliburton, which receives enthusiastic approval from Joe Rose ([10:59]). The camaraderie continues with lighthearted debates about player performances and memorable moments, adding a relatable and entertaining dimension to the episode.

Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts
As the episode wraps up, Greg Cody ties back to earlier corrections, ensuring all points are clarified. The hosts express their appreciation for the audience's participation and tease upcoming segments, particularly focusing on NBA playoff coverage. The final moments are filled with jovial conversations about food, adding a personal touch to the close of the show ([13:37]).

Notable Quotes:

• Greg Cody: “Joe Rose's 345 receiving yards in 1983 was 20th among tight ends” ([00:33]).
• Juju Gotti: “Without Chet last night, that game might have been in peril” ([04:54]).
• Joe Rose: “I like it. I like it. No, that's good. Halle Questionable. That's really good” ([11:13]).
• Greg Cody: “If a defense of a team doesn't allow you to do something you want, then you struggled” ([06:38]).
• Juju Gotti: “the team that I bet on always loses” ([03:39]).

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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz offers a comprehensive and engaging discussion on the NBA playoffs, enriched with corrections, betting insights, audience interaction, and the signature humor that defines the show. Listeners are treated to expert opinions, lively debates, and a sense of community through interactive polls and relatable banter.

Transcript

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[Greg Cody]

I have a couple of corrections to make here before we get to juju. The 2023 Albert Brooks HBO documentary was directed by Rob Reiner, not Judd Apatow. And then the more embarrassing correction comes in the direction of Greg cody. Joe Rose's 345 receiving yards in 1983 was 20th among tight ends. 20th top 20. So not did not lead the league. You know, football expert covered these games. Did not lead the league in 1982.

[Joe Rose]

Yeah, I corrected myself earlier.

[Stugotz]

Right. Said it was Dolphins. Right?

[Joe Rose]

Yeah, yeah. No need to beat a dead horse or big dog.

[Tony Desroy]

I also need to make a correction. It wasn't fervor in my haste. I misread fever. I'm sorry.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so a lot of corrections.

[Juju]

Monoth is still right.

[Tony Desroy]

But that is your vre situation. Like Favre.

[Stugotz]

I called him Tim Womack.

[Greg Cody]

So yes. So that's an assortment of mistakes today.

[Tony Desroy]

Also during the Alex Palou interview, I had a very difficult time saying in an Indy car. When you say that real quick, you.

[Stugotz]

Can'T say in Indianapolis in an Indy car.

[Tony Desroy]

It's tough in an Indy car in an Indy to see keep them separate.

[Greg Cody]

Juju is with us now. I will remind people that after every NBA playoff game he will be alley oop will be on our YouTube channel. Before we get to talking to Juju about that and other things though, let's take care of the sponsor.

[DraftKings Host]

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[Tony Desroy]

Tony Desroy, good analysis like that. Thank you.

[DraftKings Host]

Thank you.

[Greg Cody]

Greg, you said, I don't know how you feel about this. Ottinger says that McDavid's the greatest hockey player of all time.

[Joe Rose]

How many championships has he won?

[Greg Cody]

Zero.

[Stugotz]

That's funny.

[Joe Rose]

Zero. I thought it was a low number. I wasn't sure it was zero. You know, win a championship and then you enter the all time great conversation. Until you win a championship, you continue to be Connor McOver rated against the spread.

[Juju]

All right, I'm gonna go to the association tonight. Game four, Eastern Conference finals. New York Knicks versus the Indiana Pacers. And as you guys know, it's a very simple math for me. The team that I bet on always loses.

[Unknown Host]

Always.

[Juju]

My record is Dan level when it comes to betting on teams. So tonight, minus two and a half for the Indiana Pacers. Tony is locking that in a good.

[Greg Cody]

Juju. I and I will say this without equivocation and without having seen the context and the entirety of your closet. That is the single greatest hat in the history of Major League baseball. The one that you are presently wearing.

[Stugotz]

Pretty good.

[Joe Rose]

It is great.

[Unknown Guest]

Thank you, brother. Salute to them Pirates.

[Joe Rose]

Yeah, man. Dave Parker, am I right?

[Unknown Guest]

I mean, that's coolest baseball player ever.

[Greg Cody]

There. There is. That is correct as well, but there is. Tell me you've got a better hat than that in your collection. Do you have a baseball, A major league baseball hat that you like better than that?

[Unknown Guest]

Not at all. They all pale in comparison, brother.

[Greg Cody]

It's a good one. Let's talk playoffs and NBA, because as I said, Alley oop is a fun show. Juju is hosting it live after every NBA playoff game. And it is a different and more fun experience than what it is that we do around here every day. And it is not intended to be indictment of what we do every day. So your thoughts here on what we didn't cover today when it came to NBA playoff basketball?

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, man. I think not enough people are highlighting the importance of Chet Holmgren last night. Without Chet last night, that game might have been in peril. I think when Chet is playing like that, nobody stands a chance at all. Especially whenever you got Julius Randle getting five points. What in the hell? I sat up here last week and said, you know what? He will make the hall of Fame. I was wrong. Get that brother out of here. No longer. He has no heart. You have to at least put up an effort. And speaking of putting up efforts, Ant man, my heart and soul. What are you doing? He has 16 points in a very, very pivotal game last night. And then after the game, he said, oh, I didn't get up enough shots. But it wasn't because I wasn't trying. It's because that's what I was trying to do. Get him out of here. I think they're all. They need to go home right now. The Minnesota Timberwolves need to go home.

[Juju]

I think it was a Testament juju to OKC's defense, the way that they were attacking and blitzing Ant man, when he was coming off of, you know, getting the ball across the timeline, it was like, how can we get everybody else to score? And the. The thing is, they got everybody else to score, right? Like, this was the perfect game. They had the game from DiVincenzo, from Nikhil Alexander, Walker, from McDaniel, from Nas Reed, who even put up 11 points. Your boy.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, but that, that. That's the game. The game plan is, though, this is the thing that OKC does better than every individual superstar in the sport. No one can beat that defense. Like, you saw what Jokic looked in a game seven. Like, I understand that we don't cover def. But that didn't. Anthony Edwards didn't choose to be weak. That was done to him last night. Like, that's why they're going to win the championship.

[Stugotz]

You have to take more than 13 shots, then you have to.

[Greg Cody]

That's fine. But he'll take 27 and then make six of them. And you'll be criticizing him because he didn't make the shot.

[Unknown Guest]

But that right there is why I object to the whole. He said after the game, I didn't struggle. You know, I didn't shoot enough to struggle. They weren't allowing me to do this or do this. Okay, If a defense of a team doesn't allow you to do something you want, then you struggled.

[Greg Cody]

That.

[Unknown Guest]

That's struggling.

[Stugotz]

If you're one of seven three, you struggled. I mean.

[Greg Cody]

I agree with you, but I would just also say that we do a very poor job of covering defense in this sport. It's not sexy. If we're talking about the individual performances all the time, it's very easy to blame Jokic and Anthony Edwards. We both know. We all know that both those guys are great, correct? Or do we not know that? Do we not know that, Stugance?

[Stugotz]

I don't know if Edwards is great yet.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, I. They're.

[Joe Rose]

I agree.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, they're obviously great. Both of them are obviously great. And if they don't show up in a big performance, I don't think it's ever because Anthony Edwards doesn't have the confidence to show up in a big performance. I think it's because OKC will ravage everyone who's left. Like, that's. That's how they won 68 games.

[Unknown Guest]

And they had the fortunate advantage of going against the toughest team in the playoffs, in my opinion, the Nuggets last round. If you can come up with a plan to stop Joker. Alex Caruso got that confidence and everybody got that confidence in the last series. Man, these Timberwolves are a piece of cake.

[Greg Cody]

You were saying Stugot, instead of in my ear, why don't you say it out?

[Stugotz]

Is that your ear is as low. I was saying if Alexander Walker could figure it out. How about Anthony Edwards figure it out? Okay. That tough defense.

[Greg Cody]

I would argue that perhaps OKC allowed other people to figure it out.

[Juju]

Focusing a little on Anthony Edwards more than Nikhil Alexander Walker A little bit more.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, but he figured it out. I mean, yeah, he had a big game. He did. Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

That's all that matters.

[Unknown Guest]

Also. Also in the pesky lane, other than white guys.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

I would like to submit Grand Theft Alvarado. Jose Alvarado from the New Orleans Pelicans. He is very.

[Juju]

Did not get a PD suspension, by the way.

[Stugotz]

So good.

[Greg Cody]

It is. It is a good one. But. Okay. So thank you for zigging while we're zagging here. Is there a black, pesky person that isn't a leadoff hitter like Bip Roberts? That perfect Eric Murdoc.

[Tony Desroy]

Eric Murdoch was pesky. His nickname was the man of Steel.

[Unknown Guest]

Boom.

[Greg Cody]

Torture Chamber.

[Juju]

Patrick Beverly Pepev.

[Greg Cody]

That's a good one.

[Juju]

That was an assist from outside.

[Greg Cody]

That's a good one.

[Unknown Guest]

Yep.

[Greg Cody]

Caitlin Clark was also injured yesterday. We didn't talk about that at all. The. The. The ratings continue to be just unbelievable for. For her and that sport.

[Unknown Guest]

Right. I know that's a tough, tough blow to the league, the ratings and everything. She's out for a minimum weeks, which puts her out in some important games. Her team was surging right now doing it. I think they're merging at the right time. You did getting all the. The pieces together, whatever the words are I'm looking for. They're getting it together right now. I think it's a tough blow for that team, man. I think that it will allow the other pieces on that team. Natasha Howard, Dejuana Bronner and All the rest of the girls to come up with a plan. Sort of like Jalen Brunson. In my opinion, the Knicks play a little better without Jalen Brunson hogging the ball for 20 seconds of the shot clock. I remember when he got hurt earlier in the season. OG was OG McAl Bridges was Mikal Bridges. I think that offense flows a little bit better. You did, but in this situation, it's rough because Caitlin is a facilitator as well. So, yeah, prayers to the Fever, but the league definitely is taking a hard blow with that one.

[Greg Cody]

Any thoughts on the return of John Halliburton?

[Unknown Guest]

Man, man, man. They. They. They got it right. Because they. I'm happy they kept him out of New York. If he would have been allowed to go to New York, he would have been hit with trash cans, all the stuff that the brother outside got hit with. Because New York fans, they attack Wind Horse. If they attack Wind Horse, then John Halliburton, Jr. Or senior would have been on the menu as well. So I think they got it right. It was a Freudian suspension. And keep him in the skybox because New York fans don't play that.

Cody, you ever been yelled at while leaving a game?

[Joe Rose]

I have never had anything thrown at me, though.

[Greg Cody]

Do you guys like the idea or is it a dad joke? A mean suggestion that. That Tyrese Halliburton and John Halliburton should do a show together called Halle Questionable.

[Joe Rose]

I like it. I like it. No, that's good. Halle Questionable. That's really good.

[Stugotz]

A lot of people liked it. Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, the loser game shows decides for itself whether something is a funny joke or not. Granddad. Greg, Cody, making a granddad joke and saluting a granddad joke as good is not the compliment that he thinks it is.

[Joe Rose]

Sure it is. It's the ultimate compliment.

[Greg Cody]

Poll questions, please. One of which is about dad jokes and whether or not they are intentionally and purposefully terrible. What do you have for us?

[Unknown Guest]

Yes, sir. Our dad jokes. Always terrible. 56% of the audience says, no, they are not.

[Joe Rose]

Hello.

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Joe Rose]

What a win.

[Stugotz]

Good day for dads. Yes.

[Joe Rose]

What a victory for myself. Close. Too close. But still a victory.

[Unknown Guest]

Big W, big V. Speaking of dads, congratulations to Northwestern for making it to the championship over the weekend. They had a tough game in the championship, but still, getting to the championship is not an easy feat. You feel me? Salute. Stugats.

[Stugotz]

Thank you.

[Greg Cody]

Also, put on the poll. Juju was Joe Rose a great tight end. I just want to close that loop.

[Stugotz]

Greatest on that team at the time.

[Greg Cody]

20Th, 20th in the league overall is shooters.

[Unknown Guest]

Touch math. 56 of the audience says, no, it's not.

[Juju]

A bunch of non shooters out there. A bunch of bricklayers.

[Unknown Guest]

Hey, salute to MTV. Can a team that's up 20 literally be playing for their lives? 58 of the audience says no, they cannot.

[Stugotz]

They're wrong.

[Unknown Guest]

Is it very hard to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 16 times in a row? So hard. I had a typo earlier in the show. I put Panthers, and it was still hard. 76% of the audience says, yes, it is hard. Yo, and the last poll, what, are there more of Starbucks or CVS's? 80% of the audience says Starbucks. And those are your polls.

[Greg Cody]

Go ahead and close us out with a little bit of that. Great work that made Joe Rose the 20th best tight end in the sport in 1982, when he had 343 receiving yards.

[Unknown Host]

Mmm.

[Stugotz]

Ah, that's good.

[Unknown Host]

Big, juicy cheeseburgers. A Philly chicken. Mmm, that's good. Onions. Mmm. Mushrooms. Mmm. It's good. Excuse me, can I have a side order of. Mmm. Can I get some blue cheese with it? I like to dip my thick. Mmm. In that blue cheese they have there. Hey. Oh, you want some pasta and seafood dishes with fresh fish? It's good. So good.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Unknown Host]

There is nothing like a thick. Mmm.