00:00All right. Odds to win the Eastern Conference. FanDuel and DraftKings have a four-team race at this point.
00:05I know Charlotte has had a surprisingly nice season. They moved up to 27 to 1.
00:10Detroit has fallen back to 7-1 because of the uncertainty of Cade Cunningham.
00:13They were much higher about a week and a half ago.
00:16Do you see that as a four-team race, or is there a dart throw here for anyone else?
00:21Yeah, I can't really trust any team behind those top four.
00:24I do think Charlotte is very frisky. We'll talk about them in a second.
00:26They're in kind of a very winnable spot tonight against the Kings.
00:30But this is a team that's really fun.
00:31Charles Lee has led a fantastic rise of this young team in the way that they've been playing basketball.
00:37I talked about this on the program a couple of weeks ago,
00:41talking about how I really like the Pistons as a possible dart throw to win the entire thing.
00:45That was obviously before they had a little bit of a slide, and then they had the Cunningham injury.
00:49So got some bad value on that.
00:51But I do think this team can still make some noise.
00:53We saw them take down the Lakers last night, even without Cade in the lineup.
00:56And I think that this team, especially with the way that they play defense,
01:00the J.B. Bickerstaff, just a pedigree that he brings to the table and has brought all season long
01:04is something that we're going to continue to see and will show up in the playoffs.
01:07So, I mean, I don't want to take a stab at Boston, plus 185.
01:11I watched them the other night, and I know that Jason Tatum is just getting back to being healthy.
01:16He's returning. He's getting – you know, they've talked about ramping him back up,
01:19and he's going to play those 30 minutes.
01:20And he's returning from a very substantial injury, so it does take some time to knock that rust off, right?
01:24But I was just concerned with some of the other things you saw from this team on the defensive end.
01:29Obviously, the Missoula ball that they play with, you know, if they shoot so many three-pointers,
01:33regardless of where they're playing, that if they're not falling, this team can lose by 20-plus very easily.
01:37They got smoked by the Wolves the other night without Anthony Edwards at home as double-digit favorites.
01:42Now, you can maybe say it's a one-off in the NBA.
01:44It happens every once in a while.
01:45But this team's been playing kind of poor basketball over the last couple of weeks,
01:49and this is not the right time you want to do that.
01:51But alternatively, you want to go into the playoffs rip-roaring, ready to go,
01:55on a little bit of a hot streak and kind of feeling yourself.
01:57And I just don't think that the Celtics have that right now.
01:59So we'll see what happens down the stretch the last 10 games and see if that adjusts.
02:03But to me, I still think you can get value on the Pistons.
02:05And like you said, I think that Charlotte, even though they're 27-1 and they're a young, frisky team,
02:10maybe they can make some noise when they get into the playoffs too.
