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Fan had concerns about the Detroit Pistons in the NBA Playoffs, were they proven correct?
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00:02hey now all right well i think it's pretty clear if i'm not here the tigers win if i'm here
00:11the
00:12tigers lose so i think i'm just going to do a service i'm just going to leave again okay
00:20what's going on mark ryan will be back on tuesday light over my dead body so all right let's get
00:25to
00:25business shall we because the tigers are not the topic they look they played they did their job
00:31they played some garbage can teams won a bunch of games cool we can panic is over right yeah
00:37panic might just be beginning with something else though now i'm gonna say what i think you're
00:44thinking and you don't know that i know what you're thinking okay you read i want to see if
00:50we're going to walk together on this okay game one pistons and magic is the ultimate case of two
00:55things being true at the same time i want to offer you both of my truths coming out of this
01:01game
01:01and then we'll dig in on the reaction to it is that fair yeah yeah okay that's a different way
01:08of
01:08putting it but yes i agree i just think it's important because here's what the playoffs are
01:12all about beautiful overreactions i'm not going to overreact but we will react so here's truth number
01:22one it took the pistons all of one playoff game to prove all critics and doubters right it's truth
01:31and whether you call doubters haters people that don't know ball whatever it is you prove them right
01:40because all the bravado and all the woe is me we're being disrespected we're not the favorites well
01:46here's why if you look at this series and rank out the top six players the magic have four of
01:54them
01:55so yeah the whole narrative about the pistons not being as good as a record not being one of the
02:01better one seeds in recent memory and being vulnerable to a deep run you kind of proved it
02:07in game one but here's what else is true you still have the best player in the series you are
02:13still
02:13favored to win the series i still believe you will win this series but this sure looks like this
02:19is going to be a seven gamer i think both things can be true where you can still love the
02:23pistons
02:24respect the pistons but i i do think that should be a nice reality check for you pistons won again
02:31yet we can cut that crap out yeah i don't think anybody was walking around with the championship belt
02:36last night orlando they were wearing a little bta was going on um they out pistoned you they did and
02:45i would even say you could make an argument based off of last night that they have five of the
02:51best
02:51six players on the court okay because during no showed we'll see yeah i mean i was you're putting
02:59during because i'm like looking at the game i know but i'm saying told me to buy his hairs but
03:03i'm
03:03like wendell clark in the aggregate look kate's the best player in the series and durin is somewhere
03:07in the top six but the other four look this is the reason all year and i know i i
03:12got absolutely
03:13bone crushed all year by texters because every time we would talk about teams that were a threat i would
03:18continue to bring up orlando and go guys i know they cut their booty but it's because they're all hurt
03:24like i love how casually last night uh b arthur in his wig mentioned that wagner had missed 47 of
03:32the
03:32last 51 games he's their second best player yeah a lot of copium happened after the game last night
03:39well you know they probably should have been the three seeds so it's really not you don't get to do
03:44that you just don't you don't so look i i want to know where people's concern is because rico
03:50look orlando is a weird team is that they're kind of designed to to bust your balls they're good
03:59and you're this is the problem with the piston structure so we talk about the playoffs everyone
04:04tries right right so all of a sudden danis jenkins not out there in a superman outfit no everyone tries
04:11but it's also when you're going to play a sewer and durin at the same time and i know a
04:16source
04:16minutes got limited in the second half you know why orlando could just pack the paint
04:22they don't have to guard you and see that's the thing right there is jb's gonna have to figure out
04:27do i go with my all defensive players knowing they can't score they're they're an offensive liability
04:35or do i try to get the best guys the robinsons and the dennis jenkins out there to try to
04:40score
04:41points all right because i don't think you could have it both ways and i think yesterday he he went
04:47we got to try to match points for points and that's where asar but played nine minutes in the
04:53second half yeah because he's useless on offense exactly and he's a wonderful defensive player but
04:59look here's here's what it boils down to like little moments stick with you dude it's three and a half
05:05minutes left and i'm down seven and you want me to take you serious as an nba finals team you're
05:11offering cade cunningham dennis jenkins as his backcourt mate yeah no yeah so no recall i don't
05:19know the answer because ultimately i didn't think the pistons were very good defensively last night
05:23from a chaos standpoint and generating some open run yes but the amount of out of position like durin
05:32allowed four or five guys on a back cut and it's like dude you are the last line of defense
05:38like
05:39durin was so bad last night at both ends of the floor if you're not going to play the elite
05:44defense
05:44you're going to find yourself in trouble because i can admit this even though i took hell all year
05:51no orlando is not a typical eight seed but let's not turn them into the 2000 lakers either no you
05:58can't
05:58get beat by 10 at home in game one well here's the other thing mike they didn't shoot that well
06:03from
06:04the three-point line either so no which was an opportunity but it's also an opportunity if the
06:09pistons could actually shoot the three that's a night where if your opponent only hits 10 threes in
06:14today's nba rico you got to be plus 12 plus 15 plus 18 what were the pistons dead even yeah
06:21not the
06:22funny thing is and and i i gotta give credit for cookies because he he summed it up well but
06:28every
06:28every doubt that we had about this team we kept saying and people were like oh you're gonna be fine
06:34reminded me a lot of game one for the lions last year against the packers and it was hey you
06:41know
06:41what you probably need to bolster that defense hey that offensive line ain't doing that well no no
06:45trust me they'll be okay and then at that game everything got exposed now tj came in here trust
06:53me guys it's the little things and blah blah blah rumble rumble cutscene didn't make playoffs
06:58everything that you said actually came true hey i do think they're gonna win the series for the people
07:04in the back saying oh you guys are being negative no but guys what you see is a problem and
07:12if
07:13orlando can walk into your house and don't give me rust versus rest because the sons had the same
07:20amount of rest and got bounced out of okc so you can't give me that argument either well look if
07:27you
07:27want to say because orlando played and look okc is the best team in basketball right but you're both
07:32one seeds yeah but you're not no you're not like i'm sorry you're not them you're not the spurs you're
07:38not the celtic you're not like i i can understand the rust in the first quarter orlando wired you
07:44you're the first one seed to lose game one wire to wire fashion in almost 30 years so yes to
07:51you
07:51both things are true first quarter but then the excuse goes away here's one thing you brought up
07:56though and again two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven the cade cunningham thing
08:00is interesting to me because cade was splendid offensively here's the problem when cade takes
08:06more than 21 shots they only win 35 percent of games so the problem last night that the biggest fear
08:14and critique we had they don't have a true number two and it's another thing people get all butthurt
08:20about is i can both like jaylen duran but have no interest in paying him upwards of 40 million a
08:25year
08:25because i can't run a play for him and i can't run effective pick and roll because team's late
08:30they're just going to play drop cover they're never he never could hit an 18 footer so i i the
08:36problem
08:36is cade looked around and was like it well actually we have a drop for that
08:43yeah i'm just going to take every shot because mike it's a simple defense and you've seen it throughout
08:48the years where it was back in the day was it was michael jordan it was or it was shaquille
08:54o'neal
08:54is like i'm going to let you score 50 points tonight yes nobody else scores another basket
08:59and we'll win you'll tire yourself out so that late in the game you won't be making free throws
09:04because your legs are tired but we're going to clamp down on these other four guys it's okay
09:10do as score as many points as you want that's what orlando did you just funnel the offense into one
09:16player that's it and over the course of a seven game series the wear and tear on almost any player
09:22unless you are a legend of jordan and kobe's ilk you're going to wear down like kade the pistons
09:30are at their best when everyone's getting involved that's how they can reach their peak but the problem
09:35is what what you just said like orlando's looking at this and going we don't have to guard these
09:41people so look i'm not panicked but i think that needs to be a reality check game one especially
09:49for the team see for all the bravado and all the bs and then they want to play the victim
09:55nobody
09:55loves it lock in let's talk more walk you got bullied at home you can't have wendell carter
10:02outplay jayland duran can we at least agree on that rico i agree that's what i said looking at this
10:07i could put wendell carter in that sixth spot over duran top seven after last night i'm begging
10:14you not to but i understand but after last night but no mike see i don't think that they can
10:18just
10:18let the pistons just leave them alone and only defend kade i think it's one of those
10:22whoever guards kade that's your guy but we got to make sure you play defense and don't let
10:28thompson get hot don't let jayland duran get hot they can't i'm saying those players are not
10:35capable in a playoff environment where they are going to say look okay danish jenkins we're
10:39protected no we're protecting the paint you could see it last night they almost look like wisconsin's
10:45old pack line like they just were going to say look you're not going to get to the rim yep
10:49and you're
10:51simply and and what happened one player had double figures outside of kade and it was to buy and again
10:57this is the problem is that this seduction that takes place all year long and and i almost blame
11:04kade for one thing the existence of tobias harris he's the one who took up for the oh i love
11:09uncle
11:10t we need uncle t no actually kade you need a baller you need someone to space the floor so
11:16that when
11:17duran is here how good would michael porter jr stop stop i know all right you know what no no
11:22no no i'm
11:23saying you're right right but it's just both things can be true is that it it took five minutes for
11:30the
11:30doubters to be proven right but yet you still have every right to believe you're going to win
11:34the series but i do think this looks like an extended series because orlando now has i didn't
11:41know what wagner would look like after missing essentially 50 games yeah he looked really good
11:48once he got his legs under him in the first half and played really strong for a stretch and now
11:53they
11:54have two six ten guys rico they can give him the ball at the top of the key it can
11:58be a shot it can
11:59be a drive it can be a post you gotta answer for that when he did the hesitation and didn't
12:04finish
12:04with the dunk i was like all right that's it let's start preparing for game two because this one's over
12:09you're never gonna catch up and you got punched in the face and unfortunately in a in a nba where
12:17the
12:17playoffs were supposed to just be chalk yeah you're the only top seed that didn't show up and look it's
12:25you got wired yeah there were a couple of moments where i i know kade tied it at one point
12:31and then
12:31it was an 8-0 run for orlando again and again what is the secret sauce what are the lineup
12:38combinations
12:39part of this is going to have to be how do you get durin going well when you don't have
12:45an offensive
12:45game that's pretty tough how do i get him going i'm just i'm not gonna fine you want to try
12:51to run
12:52pick and roll you want to have him dive to the bucket orlando has the size to stand up to
12:57that
12:58this is where him not being a modern center hurts you but i know all the basketball geniuses you know
13:04tickling their pickle in january beating a bunch of brain dead teams okay well we're here now
13:11so lock in because game two mandatory come on and by the way what was with the fans last night
13:19that was the worst playoff environment any of the ones i watched okay everybody okay down at lca
13:25you know what i'm not gonna allow you to slander the fans because fans show up when you give them
13:31something to cheer about like the buffalo sabers kenny what time the wings play tonight
13:37read something okay
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