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00:05dealer's choice take your pick what bothers you most you know that was a great clip to play right
00:11now too because you thought all right hey rusty in the first half hey they're down by four going
00:17into halftime they had a chance to tie it up or take the lead right before half cave comes down
00:22shoot to three misses then all of a sudden hey you know it's it's four points going into halftime
00:27i really felt like coming out of halftime it was going to be a completely different feel look
00:33every especially at home i thought so too and it just wasn't guys damn it's one game everyone's
00:41flipping the script on them they'll get it together wednesday beat orlando in six jordan in a shop
00:46yeah but jordan did you have this going six when the series started
00:50be honest because it feels like almost like a defensive like well we're going to win the
00:54series still well yeah i would hope so you're the one seat against the eight right but all these
00:58problems that people were telling you about that you didn't want to hear are showing up in the
01:02postseason and for it being quote only one game orlando has won three of the five meetings head
01:07to head and the only one in the postseason so far they came into detroit this environment
01:15against this team and bullied them tech says if you have two robins it wouldn't matter if you play
01:22defense like a matador yeah that was my biggest thing yeah and that's where i was talking about
01:27the fact that it just it wasn't the pistons defense that we had seen all season long and here's the
01:33other thing where's all the confidence from these other guys when cade was out asked jb last week
01:38yeah and he talked about you know guys being leaned on and the confidence that they got all of a
01:46sudden
01:46cade comes back and then you know and i think jb said and gov correct me if i'm wrong one
01:52of the
01:53things he talked about is yeah you know sometimes early in the season they get caught watching cade and
01:58cade doing his thing when he was gone that wasn't there anymore and you had dennis jacins
02:05tobias harris a duncan rock like all these other guys stepping up at different moments
02:11to stem the tide and weather the storm last night they just weren't there i expect there to be more
02:19of a defensive backbone in the series which is why i'm not saying they're going to lose the series
02:24my concern is simply the other issues will stop this team from making as far as as they could
02:30and that's that's been unfortunately the you know the backdrop of this season is yeah but do they have
02:35enough do they have a second score do they have enough shooting do they is jb come playoff time
02:42gonna manage your rotation properly 11 guys is too many in the postseason and asars got to play more
02:47than nine minutes in the second half i'm sorry that's the identity of who you are as a team is
02:52your
02:52defense tech says stew and asar are the identity they played 44 minutes couldn't get important stops
03:00those things are tied together let's go to um steven you're next up in clarkston you're a 97 one
03:08hey good morning guys hey um so i'm not i'm not um like some of these other callers where
03:14it's over i don't think the series is over but i will say this you know when it was between
03:18charlotte
03:18and orlando um charlotte when when you played charlotte in the season you took their best punch and you
03:25still won by 11 12 points orlando was a different story they didn't have franz wagner two of the games
03:30they played in the regular season and when they played paulo banquero did not play well
03:35so you throw in wendell and the players that played well against the pistons in the regular season
03:41was desmond bain uh thugs and wendell carter jr not a lot of people are talking about wendell carter
03:47jr when you when jay jaylen duran has to go out and defend the three he is not effective and
03:53he can hit
03:54open threes and this is going to be a problem it happens with cleveland with with mobley um this is
04:00a tough matchup for jaylen duran you know so he's got a that's what that's why i'm a little worried
04:04wendell carter jr is kind of an x factor for them he can hit open threes we do not have
04:09a big man
04:09that can shoot the three and and as far as the on the pistons front i'm sorry with isaiah stewart
04:16i i gotta find paul reed minutes because he if isaiah stewart's not blocking shots if he's not
04:22hitting the occasional open three he is a liability offensively you take him out and he's and if
04:27they're going to shoot threes and they're going to play the perimeter game he's not effective he
04:31cannot play in in the game i think paul reed has deserved time i think he's more athletic and i
04:37think
04:37this is a series where he might have to be called upon i know 11 guys is too many and
04:41i agree with you
04:42um but i just isaiah stewart it's just i think he's i think people are overplaying the um the heart
04:50aspect and the identity they're going to be in a dogfight here and they need athleticism
04:56i would say if you're in a dogfight i i'm not resigning stew to mop-up duty no like he
05:02was a
05:02plus player last night and he did have one big block in the first half that i thought was going
05:07to kind of get things going and while he's not a great shooter he can step out and shoot i
05:12don't
05:12think there's banished stew and you want to play paul reed a little more but now we're now i'm playing
05:18three centers right i'm playing a 12-man rotation the answer is duran's just got to play better
05:23yeah i think that's the that's the simplest solution to any of this 11 to 6 and offensive
05:30rebounds for the magic that's the reason the game didn't come down to the wire
05:33from an unnamed text hindsight should have kept hardaway jr most three pointers from a six man
05:38in the league this year another pointing out hey it's a good thing we didn't pick up a prolific
05:41shooter at the deadline well i mean that's why i said give me kevin herter was 50 last night
05:50guys i know it's a game one overreaction but if we lose this series we have to have a serious
05:54conversation about jb because it becomes clear he's not the guy to help you win a championship
06:00all the narratives all of them are on the table right now and i disagree with that but watching
06:08last night i got nothing to back it up with let it play out on the ticket text and another
06:15says
06:15the pistons played soft from dylan and royal oak
06:20some old bits here i would have benched duran for stewart jalen was useless out there on offense
06:25and defense that's brian several texts about turnovers cade looked lost and lazy won't win
06:32one game this series if there are stupid turnovers and easy takeaways clean it up detroit drew on his
06:37way into work
06:40i wasn't too upset about the turnovers um they only had two more than orlando had
06:45i mean i didn't think it was it wasn't one of the glaring um issues guys sure looked like the
06:53eight seed was the pistons and orlando was the one seed maybe rip and ben should have suited up
06:58instead of sitting in a stance
07:01yeah that's the thing man if you were there it's supposed to be a great atmosphere and from
07:04the jump you had the air taken out yeah had to fight and claw and didn't lead didn't lead for
07:08a single minute you're the one seed should win the game but to lead for zero minutes it's 11
07:15straight home playoff losses for the pistons going back to 2008 worst part of that game what's that
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07:43brought to you by mastercraft heating and cooling last night cade cunningham had 39 points the pistons
07:49112 101 game one loss to the magic it was tied for his third highest scoring game this year and
07:54at 48
07:55he had the second highest field goal percentage of any game this year with 39 or more points he
08:00unfortunately did not get much help from any other piston on the floor tobias harris had 17 points but
08:06shot just 33 and was one of seven from deep duncan robinson had nine points but only played 26 minutes
08:11for defensive reasons the most glaring lack of help came down low as jalen duran had only eight points
08:16and seven rebounds in a game low minus 21 that was duran's first game since his rookie year with less
08:22than nine points and nine rebounds despite playing more than 30 minutes jb bickerstaff talked about
08:28what made it so difficult for the pistons all-star after the game
08:47detroit will need duran and others to show up in game two to even the series it's a must win
08:52wednesday night as higher seed teams who fall behind two and oh in the series have won just 13 percent
08:57of
08:57the time since 1984 game two tips off wednesday from little caesar's arena at seven o'clock tigers
09:03also have game four against the red sox this morning at 11 10 a.m at the carlwell health sports
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09:44we'll go um live to the minion room at 7 35 i'll give you some bachelor party stories
09:49don't know if we want to go live to the minion room that's a little um there was a moment
09:55from the bachelor party that i want to know if it was fair or foul we'll do that at 7
09:5935
09:59john we'll get to the spring game you were there over the weekend that's at 7 18 some stuff on
10:05the
10:05pistons and uh by the way some aj brown news as well we just get this alert on our phone
10:10yeah
10:11aj brown is likely to be traded from the eagles to the patriots once june one rolls around that's
10:17per adam shifter pretty sure diana russini was all over that story
10:23she was oh um okay interesting you have a big reaction to that um not a huge reaction uh and
10:33other than i do think it will shape both teams in what they're going to do in the draft obviously
10:41if
10:41that if this is something that they've hey behind closed doors they've got the handshake deal
10:46it works out for both teams what do you think the trade may needs a number one receiver
10:51and if the eagles if the diva attitude or whatever it is that aj brown brings to the eagles
10:58has run its course then it obviously they'll be looking for to replace that production in the draft
11:07yeah i get it i'm like late first or is it a second um i would i would think more
11:13second i know that
11:15they want to you know that we'll see if they do it earlier than the lines that they want to
11:19water the
11:19garden yeah if it's a second i think it's such a steal a late second to get a number one
11:24receiver
11:24for you in return for aj brown um i don't even know if it'll be a second yeah because of
11:30the
11:30contract that they're taking on then it's to me it's a no-brainer because you're not paying your
11:33quarterbacks right can pay the receiver and you can keep a lot of your you know draft capital we'll
11:38see what it turns out what they end up giving up and getting and all that uh great staff by
11:42the way
11:42from brendan in the update the pistons kind of a must win wednesday now because teams that start
11:48oh and two yeah 13 percent it was did he say it was the favorites the home seed the home
11:57team if
11:58they go down oh two yeah that's not great no it's not uh text from you guys two four eight
12:04five three
12:04nine ninety seven ninety seven pistons had an off night durin struggled the whole game my question is
12:10why didn't bicker staff sub him out and get paul reed in the game proven himself all season i think
12:15he provides the spark would have given the durance durin a chance to settle down and think about how
12:19he was playing i mean all of those things if you hindsight's always 2020 i don't know that i'm
12:27looking to get another guy in the rotation paul reed needs some minutes he can play some of durin's
12:32and stews that's from q this is why they lost the series last year as well jb's playoff rotations
12:39have been and will continue to be atrocious thompson playing nine minutes in the second
12:44half when he is at worst the third best defender in the entire nba is ridiculous yeah i agree with
12:49that i do too that's that's clearly a flaw and i don't know why jb wouldn't have played him more
12:56but they did his point they did this a little bit last year too postseason
13:02i i think the concern obviously assar's limited offensive output as a shooter and you're trailing
13:08but the to get back in the game you need stops and you got to ask yourself what end of
13:14the floor
13:15do the pistons need to be rock solid it's defense it's their identity that's where they get the fast
13:20break buckets that's where they get stops and get looks and it takes the burden off of them in a
13:25half court set assar's got to play more minutes so if you if you trim it to an eight guy
13:30rotation
13:31sure um the three most i would think the three that you're going to have in there are isaiah stewart
13:35ron holland and danis jenkins sure i mean i don't okay we all want something out of kevin hurter
13:43because of the trade with jayden ivy but if him and lavert don't play i mean or javante green
13:48yeah again played five minutes yeah but yeah i mean it's postseason man like your starters got to play 30
13:53minutes across the board i mean look at look at orlando all their starters played heavy minutes
13:59they all played 30 plus minutes they all scored in double figures they all contributed they were
14:02all plus players you lean on your best dudes yeah and for them they didn't have wagner for a huge
14:09chunk of the season but wagner boncaro the four first they gave up for desmond bain we had the
14:15caller who brought up what wendell carter brings is a is a mismatch big and jalen sucks who's in foul
14:20trouble still one of those important defensive pieces for them that's their starting five and
14:25they've leaned on those guys two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven don't worry
14:31the pistons and jb are right where they should be that's steve from cleveland relax people pistons
14:37in five orlando's a plus plus game beat our b game there i mean that could be very true that
14:45i don't
14:45even i mean i think you're giving you're grading on a scale there if you're giving the pistons a b
14:52game b plus game that was c minus say c c minus from them yeah it's funny to hear you
15:00guys glaze
15:00the pistons all season only to hear you freak out a little and point out what others have seen all
15:04season after the last game i don't think we're freaking out i also don't think we've glazed them
15:09all year i mean there's been a healthy discussion about this basketball team yeah i mean did they do
15:14enough at the trade deadline did they add that second shooter are they going to be able to space
15:17the floor how do they match up with cleveland and boston we've had these like very candid
15:22conversations and it doesn't always make the piston homers feel very good to hear those conversations
15:27but at the same time we weren't going to dump on this team all year as the one seed
15:3060 win team and i don't think the series is over my concern is just boy this this is putting
15:36a lot
15:36of fuel on the fire of how far can they go in the postseason if this is what's happening to
15:41them
15:41in their very first playoff game and again a team that has not won a home playoff game
15:46or a playoff series so this only adds to the anxiety or gives fuel to the doubters like if
15:53you're a pistons doubter if you've been telling your fan your friends and your you know fellow fans
15:57hey i just don't think this team's that good you're going to point to your tv screen last night
16:01right oh there's no question you're going to point to the tv screen and it's like i said earlier it's
16:07all
16:07the narratives going into the to the postseason and the fact that they can't space the floor there's
16:12no shooter there's no true score opposite cade and it's jb in the postseason all those things
16:22were contributed to the loss yesterday piston situation reminds me of the 2024 15 and 2 detroit
16:30lions they're spent brett in toledo the difference is the season doesn't end after the one game right
16:38uh what else says i'm really nervous about what the narrative is going to be if the pistons struggle
16:43throughout this playoff run i don't want to hear about the deadline every time the team struggles
16:48it's exhausting then play better right i mean we're not saying the series is over we're not even
16:56saying that they lose the series we're just talking about what we saw on tv yesterday yeah and i would
17:02like to know if somebody was there like what was what was the feeling in the arena yeah when the
17:08game
17:08started halftime that you know when when it became obvious that they were not going to win right the
17:13kind of as the emotions went yeah i believe it'll be detroit and orlando tied for game five
17:22two two games apiece which isn't good for a one versus eight if i'm cleveland i'm booking my flights
17:28to boston for the ecf it's it you are the one seed and you could say well well you know
17:39orlando magic
17:40they're not your typical eight seed well they're not they're not going to bump all the way up to the
17:46one seed just because they're healthy now i wanted to make that point too i think it's important and we've
17:51gotten calls and texts that say hey orlando's not your eight seed your typical eight seed they're
17:55right they're not one of their two best players missed 50 games at the same time are they your
18:00typical four seed that's three seed it can't be used an excuse if the pistons get taken to seven or
18:06lose the series like you can't go well it's okay that we played poorly because they're really a six
18:11seed or a five seed right you're the one thank you supposed to be anyway let's get to cj in
18:17bellville cj good morning hey guys thanks for taking the call um i know the screener told me to
18:22hurry up and make my point but i just want to give a quick shout out i just want to
18:25give a quick thank
18:26you i just want to give a quick shout out to my boys i'm a travel basketball coach we went
18:30up to
18:30mount pleasant yesterday and uh you know against all eyes we walked out of your way championship man
18:36we beat one of the best teams there so really proud of my boys man uh looking forward to the
18:40rest
18:40of the season and as far as the pistons i didn't get a game get a chance to watch the
18:44game last night
18:45this is like the first game i've missed in years because i was on the road coming back from all
18:49pleasant but a couple of weeks ago you guys had a uh segment where you were talking about
18:54you know what which team do we want to match up with the most at the ac i believe you
18:58guys said
18:59like miami and i forget the other team and um you know i wanted to call in i didn't get
19:05the time but
19:05the two teams that i was worried about were the atlanta hawks which we didn't have to worry about them
19:10because they kind of ascended up to the 60 you know they're playing really good and the orlando
19:14magic um i don't think the magic is a great team and they're having some internal issues however they
19:21do match up well with the pistons and with the return of franz wagner um you know i just feel
19:27like
19:27it's going to be a really really tough series for them but i don't think they're going to you know
19:31come up short and they go six or seven games all in all i think the pistons are still going
19:36to pull
19:36it out man but the playoff is all about matchups you know you kind of throw the x's and o's
19:40out
19:40the windows at some point and you go with your guys and you know you you you know let the
19:45chips
19:45fall what they made with their matchups so uh i didn't again get a chance to watch it so i
19:50can't
19:50get you know any input on that but i think we'll be fine the rest of this series thanks for
19:54taking
19:54the call guys yep yeah and there was a difference in orlando versus charlotte you know charlotte's a team
19:59that they didn't have the size they weren't going to bully the pistons they had to hit a bunch
20:05of shots i would have loved to challenge them to be hot four times in a seven game series
20:09and pummel them orlando's the opposite they're more of a defensive team their offense is the worst of
20:15any in the eastern conference playoff mix but they've got size and they're going to battle in
20:19the boards and they're going to it's just a different series it's to his point it's a matchup thing
20:23it is and the pistons just hey they didn't match up in in any way shape or form kade did
20:29but other than that damn near 40 points yeah well where's your other contributor
20:34i'll give the stat again 15 18 of 51 18 of 51 were the pistons not named kate cunningham
20:44let's get to rob on a cell rob good morning hey um i i'm so concerned with uh with kate
20:54um
20:54yesterday he just looked lackadaisical and a lot of possessions uh you know his nickname is smooth
21:02operator and all that and he just they just surrounded him there were several opportunities
21:09where like dennis jenkins was running underneath the hoop wide open he doesn't get them it just
21:16i'm really concerned with kade's play style and thinking that it may not translate into the playoffs
21:25when the game is accelerated and and more aggressive so you i'm maybe i'm missing something he had three
21:32turnovers oh and it's not even turnovers okay it really isn't the turnovers it's he's i feel like
21:40he's trying to make space for himself and in the in the playoffs it's a team game more it's not
21:47the
21:47the one-on-one and and and maybe i'm just looking at a few possessions where i've seen like there
21:54was
21:54one where herter was under the hoop uh jenkins was under the hoop um it just didn't see you like
22:01he
22:01he kind of played into orlando's hands because jb said they packed the paint it's well noted that
22:05durin didn't have a big day i mean that was clearly orlando's game plan and if kade was kind of
22:09tunnel
22:09visioned into get the paint get near the paint and and missed some of those those shooters that ended up
22:16being open is that your point yeah yeah and and there's he has like this this move where he always
22:23goes in and he kind of goes to his opposite hand and spins the opposite way like every single time
22:29and and there was three different times where um one it got poked away by thugs but the other ones
22:35he
22:35did get the possession but then he was hurried he had it in his hands he it's just you know
22:41they're
22:41going to jump on you and they're going to double team you in the playoffs and it just it just
22:48i'm just so concerned with um just it playoffs just concern me with his play style that's it
22:57rob appreciate the phone call
23:01a couple quick texts that guy's turn signal is driving me crazy does that guy live inside a clock
23:09rob i'm concerned with how well i can hear your blinker sir
23:12and diana russini has the chance to do the funniest thing ever and still break that aj brown news via
23:17twitter
23:18all right we'll get to your observations from the spring game it's next 97 one
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