00:00either weaknesses or somebody's better at it than you.
00:04But I'm willing to admit this.
00:06When it comes to NBA talk,
00:12we lean on Kang a little bit.
00:14This is his wheelhouse.
00:17What's interesting is he's souring on the game a little bit.
00:20I'm going to give my take on last night's Charlotte-Miami game.
00:25Charlotte wins by one in overtime,
00:26thanks to a Colby White miracle three at the end of regulation
00:29to force the overtime.
00:31Miracle.
00:32Yep.
00:33And with 10 seconds left, down one,
00:35LaMelo Ball driving, contested layup,
00:37makes it with four seconds to go,
00:39and they get a block on the other end.
00:41Miles Bridges.
00:42And Charlotte beats Miami, and Miami is out.
00:47And we can talk about all the excitement
00:49and the drama at the end of the game.
00:52I want to talk about LaMelo Ball from the Hornets
00:56who totally swept the leg of an off-balance in the air,
01:01Bam Adebayo, who fell on his butt and didn't return.
01:07Eric Spolster said after the game
01:09that LaMelo Ball should have been ejected.
01:12And we know how our Piston team have problems
01:15with the Hornets during the season.
01:18The brawl that took place,
01:20the pushing and shoving the double technicals last week
01:23with a great shot of Isaiah Stewart in street clothes,
01:27standing there with a look on his face
01:29like God is testing me right now.
01:30Right.
01:31I'm not going to charge on this court.
01:33The therapy is working.
01:39But, you know, Charlotte,
01:42the way that they are playing the game
01:44is working for them.
01:46All right.
01:47Now, Orlando plays Philly tonight,
01:50and Charlotte stays alive.
01:52They will play the loser of that game on Thursday
01:55to determine who the eighth seed is.
01:57And that eighth seed will play the Pistons.
01:59It very well could be the Charlotte Hornets.
02:03And this is where I turn to Kang.
02:07The Pistons have a reputation as a physical team.
02:11Is it an accurate take
02:13that if the Pistons match up with Charlotte,
02:15it's physical versus dirty?
02:17That it.
02:20Physical and dirty.
02:22Are the Pistons going to be the cleaner
02:25of the two teams on the court?
02:27That this is a physical basketball team
02:30that will play within the rules
02:33versus a dirty basketball team?
02:35Because video has surfaced of LaMelo Ball
02:38doing the exact same thing to Bam Adebayo
02:40during the regular season
02:41where he ran past him, reached out,
02:43and he was on the floor.
02:44LaMelo Ball had fallen.
02:45He was on the floor.
02:46And as Adebayo ran past him,
02:47he reached out and clipped his foot again.
02:50Yeah.
02:52Am I accurate?
02:53Or am I overstating,
02:55understating how the league looks at the Pistons?
02:58Will the league look at it as dirty versus dirty?
03:01So I don't think you're way off base, Doug.
03:04But we are, and I'll admit this too,
03:06we all three of us here are really,
03:08we're inside, you know,
03:09we might be too close to the situation, right?
03:11To completely objectively look at how the Pistons play.
03:14They are a physical team.
03:16They lead the league in fouls.
03:17So they know they're physical.
03:18You know, they'll put you on the line.
03:20But there is a definite difference
03:23between physical and dirty.
03:24And I don't think for the most part
03:26the Pistons ever crossed that line.
03:28They get up on you and play defense.
03:30They pick you up full court.
03:31Other teams aren't used to that.
03:32They don't like that.
03:33The Charlotte Hornets team is very young.
03:35I think they're very immature
03:37and that leads to dirty plays
03:39like we saw last night.
03:41And with the altercation with the Pistons
03:42earlier in the season.
03:45I don't think you're way off base.
03:46But like I said,
03:47I will admit too that we are,
03:48you know, we're here in Pistons country.
03:50Sure.
03:51I think there's a difference
03:52between playing physical and playing dirty.
03:56Of course.
03:57Yeah.
03:58But will the NBA see it that way?
04:00I don't know.
04:01That's a good point to bring up, Doug.
04:02Because I don't think the NBA
04:03likes the physical play.
04:05Although they should
04:06because ratings-wise
04:08I think it plays well on TV
04:09when you've got two teams
04:10that are going at it like that.
04:12But as long as it's not crossing a line
04:14you start to see punches thrown.
04:15The NBA doesn't want it to go that far.
04:17But there's no question
04:19that
04:22there's reason for controversy
04:23with last night.
04:24Adebayo only played 11 minutes.
04:26This is a guy who
04:27a month ago scored 83 points in the game.
04:2983 points out of the game.
04:31You're taking 83 points out of the game.
04:32Obviously they would have beaten
04:34Charlotte last night.
04:35But I mean, you take away
04:36one of the best players
04:38early in the second quarter
04:39it's
04:40that's
04:41in the way that they did it.
04:43You can't say
04:43that that didn't impact
04:44the outcome of the game.
04:45Of course, yeah.
04:45And you know
04:46everything that happened after that
04:48I felt like
04:50it was unjust
04:52that Charlotte won the game.
04:54So like
04:54Charlotte hits that miracle three
04:56at the end of regulation
04:56to force the overtime.
04:58and then
05:00they foul
05:01Tyler Hero
05:02with like 10 seconds to go
05:04in the overtime.
05:05Hero knocks down
05:06all three free throws
05:07because it was on a three-point attempt
05:10puts the heat up by two
05:12or I'm sorry
05:13up by one
05:14and
05:15okay, let's see what happens.
05:17That would be perfect.
05:17If they lose
05:18because
05:19of a foul
05:20on a three-point attempt
05:21at the end of overtime
05:22this would be amazing.
05:23Unfortunately
05:24you know
05:25LaMelo dribbles all the way down
05:27and knifes through the defense
05:28and lays it up and in
05:29and
05:30you had the ending
05:31that you had
05:32Miami had an opportunity there
05:34but
05:35maybe it was a little bit
05:36of a hero ball
05:37unfortunately
05:37just taking it to the rack
05:39instead of finding that open man
05:40letting him have an open shot
05:41he tried taking it
05:42and got blocked easily.
05:43Well it might be a moot point
05:44because the Pistons
05:45might not play Charlotte.
05:46It might not
05:46because
05:47yeah
05:47because Charlotte
05:48still has to go another step.
05:49We will circle back
05:50to the Pistons
05:51but
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