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Can the Pistons still get the 1 seed?
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00:01all right let's get it going uh we'll give you your tournament updates it's standard procedure
00:06david every hour we'll have kind of what's happened and what we're looking forward to
00:12and we'll update you end of game scenarios i will try to go live to them it usually never works
00:17out
00:18that the games are not actually going down to the wire when we're not in a break
00:22uh we'll do the best we can though we start though we got to start with kate cunningham news
00:27um again the problem with this there's no certainties now look shamsharan you just heard
00:36the update from jeremy auto rico the two things that kind of the only two clues you get to read
00:41into it's going to be out an extended period of time right they'll reevaluate in two weeks
00:47i talked to a dear friend of mine who's a pro doctor for a pro team not in town so
00:53don't bother
00:54connecting dots googling it the point i'm making is i said look give me a median give me a middle
01:00ground like not the worst case and not this you know hope casting garbage fans do median and
01:09obviously we can just cliff note it it's at four weeks that four weeks you would be cleared
01:16medically that then it becomes are you in game shape like you can be cleared medically and be
01:24healthy but then are you in game shape to do what a guy like k does which is better part
01:30of 40 minutes
01:30a night so look again that's one opinion from someone who hasn't seen the film i asked for the
01:38median he gave me the median the shams report makes it feel like seems like sound like you're hoping he's
01:45back for the first round of the playoffs i mean i didn't know it was such thing as a mild
01:48lung
01:49collapse i just thought it was just kind of well severe is usually when you break your rib and
01:55there's an actual like physical blowout where it it doesn't require a chest tube it requires surgery
02:02um they can get complicated i didn't go down that road with my friend because that doesn't seem to be
02:08what this is it wasn't uh a catastrophe of like lindsey vaughn on the on the alps correct and you
02:15blow out your lung it's something a little different so what does it all mean i'm not gonna go crazy
02:21i can't because i don't know how long he's out if we're a week before the playoffs and he's not
02:28practicing well yeah then you've got a real issue but i think what sham said is interesting is look
02:34there's optimism he could be back for the playoffs i think that lines up with the median outcome that
02:41talking to someone outside of the situation medically says yeah four weeks i mean what's today rico
02:47march 19th what day did the playoffs start april 18th it's kind of right in that range so four weeks
02:54back but then you know probably second round is when you'd see you know we okayed yeah again maybe
03:04i don't know you know they only got a three and a half game lead luckily there's not that much
03:08of
03:09the season left you know it's funny because i was i was looking at like nba players who've had this
03:13injury over the last quarter of a century the average amount of games 12 games yeah 12 games over
03:20the course of x amount of weeks and then what do they do when they come back like cj mccollum
03:26was the
03:26biggest name player i could find he dealt with this twice yeah in like a three-year span one was
03:31a
03:31little more severe than the other yeah one he was gone i think you're right it was like six weeks
03:37but look i i think i don't want to have the conversation like espn this morning i had to
03:42turn it off and steven a smith doing that their championship well first of all do we know that
03:48cade is missing playoff game do we know that cade is gone for multiple rounds look if this is anything
03:54other than routine if it's anything other than mild if the report in two weeks is worse well we'll go
04:01there then but i i'm not going to waste energy on that that's that's me i mean if you want
04:07to panic
04:07go ahead guys i'm not going to do that i don't think it's a panic but i do think it's
04:11an adjustment
04:11i do think that your first round you're probably looking at the others would have to really step up
04:18to carry them into round number two because even if he's back it's a long so it's going to take
04:23some
04:23time for him just to be winded and and to be able to go out there and cover his guy
04:27and not because
04:29i'm thinking if it's he if he's back for the first round mike he's going to be on the pitch
04:33count he's
04:34going to have limited minutes just because of necessity so does it kill your chances no it does not it
04:41just
04:41means that somebody else is going to have to step up and get this team at least to the second
04:47round
04:47where he can go back and being the leader of this team yeah so we kind of sit and wait
04:52and i i don't
04:53know i don't have like this great amount of like histrionics and panic and i i don't think that's
04:58appropriate like i just if he is not back and playing a game or two before the end of the
05:04regular
05:04season i'll get more concerned because i will say this rico and it's all jokes aside like i know we
05:10had fun busting your balls the day you said it um but between the hornets and you know the hornets
05:16have been hot as a firecracker basically in the new year the hawks have won 11 in a row like
05:21if
05:22you face the like if you face a team like charlotte that's going to shoot 45 threes a night and
05:27you've
05:27got a cade on a minute's restraint you know those are the you gotta guard somebody and you're going
05:31to be guarding somebody about 30 feet from the rim but i i want to let it in the words
05:35of john jansen
05:36let it play out a little bit but is this good no hell no it's not good no we're all
05:41hoping for
05:41best case scenario we're hoping for four weeks and then he'll be back at some point in the playoffs
05:47but yeah this is where man man it would look not to do you know no do it no you
05:54just wish that they
05:54would have made a move and had another score well damn you in the coney i know had they gotten
06:00a
06:01second option i actually would have taken this in stride yeah because then that type of michael porter
06:05jr player could carry you in round one get you back for round two and then yeah you're off and
06:11running but look man maybe maybe i'll try to be a level of optimistic maybe you get a good report
06:19in two weeks and maybe we're not really talking about the playoffs without him or i do think a worst
06:26case is if you're trying to reintegrate him less than 100 of game shape because that was part of the
06:32conversation i had look he could be medically cleared right that does not mean he's game ready
06:36right nba players level of cardiovascular fitness is on another planet right right he's not making
06:43sales calls he's actually got to guard somebody correct so look what is your view on it guys i mean
06:48level of concern they lose the one seed i'm not going to go crazy there either because honestly
06:55your schedule is pretty cake and the celtics isn't yeah and it is three and a half games over what
07:03a 14
07:03game spread is that about right 13 i apologize i don't have that committed to memory yeah it would
07:08take almost like the minnesota twins tigers like the twins collapse yeah tigers got red hot and i only
07:14say that because again like great example okay you play the wizards again like it doesn't matter if
07:20kate plays that you just you win the game period the other night he played five minutes you win the
07:25game
07:25by 50 a lot of these teams you're facing simply don't try now david you're staring me down and burning
07:32a
07:32hole through my skull what have i said to upset you this early you haven't said anything to upset me
07:36it's an awful stern look you've been on no i i do believe that the one c could be up
07:40for grabs i'm
07:41not saying it is for sure i'm saying that it could be um and depending on seating regarding if you
07:48fall
07:48to two depending on what happens with that there's a lot of teams in that mix that could be the
07:53seven c
07:54you know the playing all that stuff but um i do i do worry about not losing in the first
08:00round but
08:00having a challenge now in the first round meaning kind of what rico was saying with the charlotte
08:06hornets that you win the series but it comes down to maybe a final game it goes longer in that
08:12series
08:13than you would have liked but i but again i can't go there until i see how he's re-evaluated
08:18in two
08:18weeks i understand that i will be right with you okay i will pull up in in a floating inner
08:23tube to try
08:24to board the boat if in two weeks they say nothing's changed or it's a negative diagnosis
08:30and then you're talking about cade potentially not being there look i'll be very clear if you
08:35don't have cade in the first round you're going home in the first round possibly why don't we just
08:39get that out of the way what i'm trying to say to people is there's no reason for me to
08:44go there
08:44today there's not because a median outcome he would be back for the first round even if a little
08:52compromised and i'm david you're not wrong maybe maybe it's a little more difficult bottom line is
08:57i can't go panic mode we don't have the information but is this good no does it put the number
09:05one seat
09:05in danger yes but i'm not going to go oh my god steven a season's over season i i mean
09:11that's that's
09:12it's a ridiculous conversation to have the season's not over if kade blue is achilles out
09:16guess what i'm saying season's over season's over and you're probably going home in the first round
09:20that's not what happened and maybe he gets a decent report and then you look back on stuff like this
09:26and you go well why did you panic well i'm not see and that's the thing i am probably wrong
09:31here but
09:32i'm already jumping to the conclusion that he won't be back until the first round starts so that's why
09:37i i'm where i'm at because then you'll have a slower k getting back into the rhythm and then
09:43we'll see but we'll probably still win the first round it'll just now be can you get them healthier
09:48for the second round that's where i'm already jumping to i'm probably wrong there yeah i'm more
09:53so pitch clock i mean yeah pitch count for the um first round you're hoping that the team can just
09:59get out of it as quick as possible give him some days off you don't drag this thing out and
10:04then
10:04have him ready for the second round yeah that's what i'm hoping for and you get the right team in
10:09the first round but you know again you can put to bed the mvp crap and yeah you gotta sweat
10:13out the
10:14one seed probably i think the biggest thing you can do now with k down for weeks on end you
10:19just need
10:19the celtics cool off they've got the knicks uh they the celtic schedule is pretty heady it's pretty
10:25tough if you pull it up let me pull it up um and have they been really good yeah has
10:30tatum looked
10:30better than expected yeah absolutely i'm shocked at how he looks um the shot will get there in a
10:36few weeks it takes time but look bottom line if the celtics can lose five games you should be good
10:44at memphis minnesota at home okc at home atlanta at home at charlotte at atlanta at miami at
10:53milwaukee toronto charlotte new york new orleans orlando that's 10 10 games against playoff teams
11:00yeah if i was keeping up i don't have an ivy league brain uh so no it's it's it's it's
11:05a
11:06headier deal and by the way if you're gonna laugh and be like well the hornets aren't that good the
11:10hornets went into boston and hit the celtics with a garbage truck beat them by 25 a couple of weeks
11:15ago
11:16i i'm not laughing at the hornets they get hot they hit 17 threes i mean they are they're a
11:21nightmare
11:22and by the way detroit loves defense look i'll just say this the number one defense in basketball
11:27since january 1st charl hornets so yeah it's they're they're becoming something you hear that
11:36yeah i know i know buzz city rica i'm getting you a larry johnson elbow oh you want a grandmama
11:43like reset yeah i can procure that for you teal jersey little lonzo more sure it's a shame those
11:50two couldn't get along they really had something going there um all right we'll get you tournament
11:54updates the cade thing david text communications when we return and look we're gonna bounce in and
11:59out of the 30 today and and go from there i i'd love to tell you the action's been incredible
12:04so
12:04far but the the it's been a struggle osu tcu is you know what the problem is it's so uneven
12:12you
12:13haven't been able to watch a game where both teams are actually performing it was basically tcu in the
12:18first half osu in the second half and the other team looks clueless and the nebraska game's awful
12:24the south floor here's how you know it's going bad for south florida they've taken more threes than
12:29louisville hey they plan horse they basically put the game plan on the hardwood and unzipped
12:36that's what they did with their game plan
12:38you
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