Zach Harper
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Let's see what David Adelman has because he's kind of the next hot assistant coach on the market. He will be this summer. I don't know, man. They just don't have any basketball people running the organization. That's what happens.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
It is, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Like, what could it be, man? Juju, I think you can help me on this quest, okay? On Jokic's basketball – reference page. This isn't anything new. It's been there for a while. But I'm trying to get us away from calling him the Joker because the other nickname on his page is Big Honey. And I just think Big Honey is a way better nickname.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I know Joker's easier and everything and Joker all that, but Big Honey is a great... That's an ABA nickname. That's a great nickname. I don't know that Big Honey had anything to do with this, but I wouldn't rule it out. I think with... With this, like, I think you have to make this move this point in the season. I think you have to run it by him. Right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
But I don't know that he decides this, right? I think you have to give him a heads up, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Yeah, you're not firing my horses. I don't care.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I like Kelvin Sampson. Kelvin Sampson is just one of those good dudes that you want to win a championship. You want him to get that validation. He's one of those basketball lifers, right? He's just one of those guys that I think has earned it. And for them to go out that way, and you could, like, the comments after, like, to not get a shot, you could live with missing a shot, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
But it was, you know, Clayton, to his credit, like, he had a miserable offensive game. Passed the ball really well, a couple turnovers, but he passed well, he defended well. And then he's the one that made the closeout on that shot that caused him to almost travel, right? Like, he's got to, he jumps, has to drop the ball. If I'm sharp there, it's easy to, you know, second guess it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
The refs were so bad, and they're college refs, so they're always bad. I don't think they were one-sided, but the refs are so bad. I hold that rock until he gets to me. I would throw my body into him, toss up some garbage, and make them call that foul, or they're the enemies forever, right? You've got to throw some contact in there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
You know, he at least didn't touch the ball and get the turnover. He tried to shield it to where they could get it. Yeah, I mean, it was such a fun game. And both those teams, with the way their tournaments went, it was always going to come down to, like, a chaotic final possession. But, man, I just feel so horrible for Houston. They didn't get a shot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Yeah. Oh, my God. Like, all right. I'm not going to be too reactionary because it's still – assuming they come out at the same time, it's still Juju Watkins, right? Like, she's still the number one pick. But – The absolute number two pick, assuming she goes out in two years, is Sarah Strong, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Like, no one else. I mean, she's already this good as a freshman? setting records for blocks and steals. She went, what, like 25, 15, and 5, and 3, and 2, or something like that. I mean, she's putting up crazy numbers. That's a lottery ticket. That's not even a stat line. Just crazy numbers there. It was deflating because I thought it was going to be a great game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I told you this privately. I will tell you this publicly. You are a star. You should be in front of the camera. You should be on the mic. You shouldn't be behind the scenes. Like, yeah, all the social media stuff you're great at, but you're a star, man. You should be in front of everything.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I thought South Carolina was going to come out and just be South Carolina. For me, it was great because, you know, Paige finally gets her title, right? She went there, what, in 2020? And now she'll be the number one pick on Monday and get to further her journey in the WNBA. But, yeah, I would have liked a better game. At what point did you give up in terms of, like, no?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
There was a point where – and it was probably, like – it probably was greater than what I remember the score being, but I think it was like an 18, 20 point game in the third. And Don Staley was like something have, they gave up like a corner three, like a left corner three. Yeah. And she like, she left, let out an F bomb.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
She was just like, she was like almost throwing a tantrum. Like she was so frustrated. And I was like, Oh no, like this is really over. We have so much time left. I was like, at that point I was like, I'm probably going to come back for the ceremony. Like, I don't know that I'm going to check back in here with the rest of this game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Like, I don't know that I can keep just watching this ass whooping.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Their offense is still a little difficult to generate some shots. The defense is great. I know it's been better lately. I don't want to see Pachemski take threes. I just, I don't want to, it's not, he's not good at it. Even though he's been hot lately, he's not good at it. I don't like watching it aesthetically. It's a bad looking jump shot. I just don't want to see.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I think he is, but now this is territory I'm uncomfortable with. I don't know. Mute it. Miss Becky, bleep it. Yeah, I think it's the first one since Jack Sikma, right? This is incredible territory. He's working with what he's got. I'm here for it, but just don't take jumpers anymore. It doesn't look aesthetically good.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
So I'm a little concerned about their offense, especially like you saw what Houston did. It's just one game, but there is the idea that you can be physical with them and take them out of it a little bit. Man, the defense is great. Like that defense is so good. They do remind me of that 2022 team a little bit that won it. I think Buddy Heald's got to come alive. He's...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
He's not shooting like Buddy Hield should, right, like he has in the past. If he gets into his rhythm shooting the ball, I'll believe a lot more. But, yeah, like they got all the makings there. Like it's looking like on the cusp of contending. I like that team a lot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Oh, Cinephobe is a podcast where Amin Alhassan and I watch movies that are poorly rated on Rotten Tomatoes, and we try to ascertain if they're properly poorly rated or maybe they didn't get a fair shake. That's Cinephobe. It's produced by Anthony Mays, and you get it wherever you get podcasts.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
You feel me? Number one, White Men Can't Jump. Okay. The one we recognize. Not that Jack Harlow BS. I haven't watched it. I will not watch it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
i'm good no thank you the real one billy hoyle sydney dean like yes that's the one that's yes sir that's number one blue chips is in there i love blue chips neon butch mccray ricky roe like western university the dolphin mascot everything right so i love blue chips above the rim birdies birdman like you gotta love above the rim Gotta love the Birdman. Yeah, gotta love the Birdman.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I mean, he got games, gotta be in there, right? Jesus Shuttlesworth. That's the wrong way to... AZ Fudd's mom, Saran wrapping the arms, which works on the left. That's a good way to teach a child to work on the skills. The Jake Shuttlesworth way turned out to be... I mean, I guess it worked. Maybe a little problematic, though, with some therapy needed in the future.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Well, I think someone reminded Stan Kroenke he owns the Denver Nuggets. And he just thought, oh, I don't. This doesn't seem good enough. I don't know, man. Like, it's look. Mike Brown gets fired in December. Yeah. Coach's fire ends happen in December. Taylor Jenkins gets fired nine games before the playoffs. We're like, Ooh, that's a little too close to the playoffs. That doesn't happen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I feel like I need a little bit of a deeper cut here. I'm going to throw in Hoop Dreams just because that just gave me a lot. Oh, yeah, if we're going to throw a documentary, yeah. I mean, Hoop Dreams is like, that's the greatest basketball movie ever, right? Like, that documentary, Arthur Agee and William Gates is just, oh, my God. Oh, you know what? Go deeper cut.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
It was an HBO movie starring Don Cheadle. Okay. The Goat. Or Rebound. The story of Earl the Goat Man of Goat. Oh, my God. I think KG like. He rode down the street with the basketball like this. He's going taking dollars off the backboard, leaving change. I think KG makes a cameo as Wilt Chamberlain in like Rucker Park or West Forth or something like that at one point. I love that. It's sad.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I don't know how good it was because I think I was like 16 when I watched it. I don't know how much I've watched it since, but I love that movie as a teenager. Yeah, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
I think he is, but I get it. Well, now this is territory I'm uncomfortable with. I don't know, but I don't know. Mute it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
Always support Juju. If you've been supporting him throughout Levitard or any of this stuff, alley-oop, this is the part where he gets to shine. I'm telling you, this dude is the star of stars.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 5: Malone Gets Fired, New Nickname for the Joker, and Will the Warriors Take It All? (feat. Zach Harper)
And then Denver's like, hold on. What about three games before the playoffs? What if we did? And it's not like they're a fringe team or anything. They could be the three seed. They're in the mix. They're a half game ahead of this whole traffic jam in the West. I think they just decided, all right, this isn't our guy moving forward.