00:00Valenti Enrico 97.1.
00:03Mark Ryan in for Mike all week this week.
00:06Sorry to the fellas for putting up with me.
00:09No, that's fine.
00:09David, actually I like that.
00:11We need to bring that back some later on this week
00:14because there's some other teams I would like to do best and worst games for.
00:17Let's do it.
00:17Let's do it indeed.
00:19You know what?
00:20Part-time Gators.
00:21Hey, listen.
00:22At least I know what the floor is, okay?
00:25Your team has the floor of plastic.
00:27Michigan has a hardwood floor.
00:29You're not even a real fan.
00:30Oh, okay.
00:31Okay.
00:32I'm a graduate.
00:33I got the diploma to tagging.
00:35Oh, it doesn't mean nothing?
00:35Okay.
00:36Cookies graduated from Central Michigan.
00:38Well, that really doesn't mean anything.
00:39Okay.
00:40I'm just kidding.
00:41I'm just kidding, Cookies.
00:45Rico, Gwen Stefani was the singer of No Doubt,
00:48and she has a lyric.
00:50She's had it up to here.
00:51I've had it up to here with the disrespect for our Detroit Pistons,
00:59and it is relentless, and it continues in perpetuity between now and the day I die.
01:08Anyway, this team has the fourth best odds to win the Eastern Conference.
01:18They won the Eastern Conference by four games.
01:22This team has the seventh best odds to win the NBA championship.
01:30There are three teams that won 60 games this year, and they're one of them.
01:38Listening to Colin Cowherd's show yesterday, Colin said,
01:42my three teams are Oklahoma City, Boston, and San Antonio,
01:46and if I had to pick a Detroit, and I'm like, maybe, maybe.
01:50If I had to pick a fourth, it's Denver.
01:54What in the name of Ben Wallace is going on over here?
01:58You know what it is?
02:00You're a little too close to the situation.
02:02I can't say I'm angry.
02:06I see why they're doing this because we've seen everything that the Pistons have.
02:13They actually gave a damn this year.
02:15They didn't sit out games.
02:17They didn't load management.
02:18They played games.
02:19They won.
02:20They got the top seed in the East.
02:23But I think all the pundits are saying, okay, let's see what happens now
02:29when everybody's playing for Cleveland, when everybody's playing for Boston,
02:33when everybody's playing for all these other teams.
02:36Let's see what happens because playoff is different than regular season.
02:40You're the masters of the regular season.
02:43But what can you do in the playoffs?
02:45Because as much as you'd like to be offended, you haven't won a series in a long time.
02:52You went to the playoffs last year.
02:54You played a great series with the Knicks, but they moved on.
02:58You didn't.
02:59Even Trajan Langdon came on our airwaves and said, hey, we can't start pounding our chest.
03:05We got to win a series first.
03:06So I think the national people are saying, Detroit, show me.
03:12Show me that you belong in this category.
03:15Show me you belong in this discussion.
03:18Show me you belong at this table because right now you're on the waiting list.
03:23You're on the outside looking in because the regular season, that's fun.
03:28That's cute.
03:29Here, pat on the head.
03:31Going to stick that right on the refrigerator.
03:33Postseason is where you make your money.
03:35We got to see what they can do.
03:37So that's why.
03:38I think they'll go a little bit further.
03:40I think they should be one of the teams that are talked about.
03:43I don't think they can win it all because I think the teams in the West are just that much
03:47better.
03:49But I do think that they could get to the NBA finals, at least the Eastern Conference finals.
03:54I would agree with you.
03:55Fourth best odds to win the East.
03:57They're telling you by that that they expect you to lose in the second round.
04:03To Cleveland.
04:04To Cleveland or Atlanta.
04:06They expect you to lose to Cleveland.
04:07But Cleveland's the team that's in front of you.
04:09Right now to win the East.
04:11Boston plus 155.
04:14Cleveland plus 330.
04:16Knicks plus 430.
04:17Pistons plus 500.
04:19That to me is beyond defensive.
04:22And it just shows to me that really they're telling you that the regular season is BS.
04:29The regular season doesn't matter at all.
04:31The networks want you to watch these regular season games.
04:35But what you achieve in the regular season really doesn't matter.
04:39They're not buying it.
04:40Were you just born yesterday?
04:41Mind you.
04:42Listen to this.
04:43What they achieved in the regular season.
04:45What did they achieve in the regular season?
04:46What is the profile of an NBA championship team?
04:51Top 10 offensive rating.
04:53They're ninth.
04:55Top 10 defensive rating.
04:57They're second.
04:58Top 5 in net ranking.
05:00They're third.
05:02They meet the criteria for an NBA championship contender.
05:07Their play meets the criteria for an NBA championship contender.
05:12And yet, hey, not even on the list of teams that can contend.
05:17Because I think a lot of people, I believe, look at the Pistons like they did OKC.
05:25OKC had, you know, the gaudy numbers going into the playoffs.
05:29But when they got there, they fell on their face until they didn't.
05:34And now they're considered one of the big boys.
05:36I think that's the same for the Pistons.
05:38You put up gaudy numbers.
05:41But let's see you actually do something and win for real.
05:44And I understand that.
05:45I do.
05:46We haven't won a playoff series.
05:48And I get where people are kind of like, well, let's let's see what they do.
05:52But based off what you just said, and this is just probably me and only me.
05:57Why is then San Antonio considered one of the favorites?
06:00I get it.
06:01Wonderful team.
06:03Great roster.
06:04Victor Wimbayama is an MVP candidate, just like Cade.
06:08But he has not played a game in the playoffs.
06:11And they are putting them right next to OKC in the Western Conference.
06:16Yet Detroit has to prove it.
06:18Yes.
06:18Two words.
06:19One, they had a seven foot six center.
06:22I understand.
06:23And that really is just hard to defend.
06:26And two, their name on the front of the jersey.
06:29That's San Antonio.
06:30They've won titles for Detroit.
06:33It's been a long time since Chauncey was out there.
06:37This was pre-Chauncey before he got arrested.
06:40Also, didn't David just answer his own question when he was asking the question of
06:43wonderful team, great roster?
06:46That is the reason why they're considered to be a great roster and a wonderful team.
06:50I just don't understand how they've never played.
06:53Victor's never played in the playoffs.
06:54And they're grandfathered in to this championship conversation.
06:57Right next to OKC.
06:58But Detroit has to prove it everywhere you hear.
07:01Voices of the NBA.
07:03Because...
07:03Oh, well, Detroit.
07:04Oh, well, I don't know about Detroit.
07:06Huh?
07:07So...
07:07Because Wimbayama's a bigger superstar than Cade.
07:11Conventional wisdom right now...
07:12I know you don't want to...
07:12I'm sorry, Mark.
07:13I know you don't want to hear that, but to the NBA world, Wimbayama is a bigger star than
07:19Cade.
07:19I hear you.
07:20I hear you.
07:21Conventional wisdom.
07:22The most popular talking heads are not considering your team as a legitimate NBA championship contender.
07:29Are they right?
07:30Are they right about you guys?
07:31248-539-9797 is where you guys can get to us on the show.
07:37We're going to take this conversation to the next level when we return.
07:42And I just...
07:43I can't believe that what this team has accomplished already is being sneezed at.
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