00:00Well done, Greg.
00:03To the phones we go.
00:05248-539-9797.
00:07The worst part of what's happening to the Pistons.
00:11Because you got a lot to choose from today.
00:12It's a smorgasbord.
00:15To say the least.
00:17You could say, why didn't the GM do something at the deadline?
00:20A texter says, sure could use Michael Porter Jr.
00:23You could ask about J.B. Bickerstaff.
00:25Are we seeing what they saw in Cleveland?
00:27Now 10-22 as a head coach in the postseason.
00:30Why is Durin playing double the minutes of beef stew?
00:33Among other rotational questions.
00:36You could say the most frustrating thing is Durin.
00:39Although I'm kind of just getting numb to the fact that he's Andre Drummond.
00:43But the fact that you thought you had something.
00:45And now it's all but confirmed.
00:47He ain't a playoff player.
00:50Is it Cade?
00:51I know he's our guy.
00:52And we don't want to direct ire towards him.
00:54But it's just not good enough to turn the ball over like this.
00:57And we mentioned Trajan Langdon.
01:00And the fact that when he was on with us.
01:03He talked about the unknown.
01:05And you mentioned it.
01:05Hey, this is kind of playing with house money.
01:07It's a free space.
01:08This is what he told us when we asked him about the postseason.
01:11So, first of all, listen, you're coming back to somebody.
01:16You're welcome.
01:23You're welcome.
01:41certainly they checked one of the boxes they got a home playoff win and that was to give context
01:46that was right after the trade deadline yeah well then the question would be then if you didn't feel
01:51like you could feel confident make it a deep run why not do more and i think the answer is
01:56they
01:56wanted to see how this team would fare and treated it like a free roll well they've evaluation they've
02:02learned i think they have a painful lesson in roster construction and i would make sure that
02:06trajan langdon sees the shot chart from the second half last night where they made two shots outside
02:10the paint that that is my biggest frustration not that it's the number one issue but tobias harris
02:16make a shot make a shot i mean there's so many guys you could point to and be upset with
02:23from the general manager to the head coach to your star player to your starters to your bench guy
02:28you take your pick and john you didn't even pick from that listing you brought up
02:32the regular season's a fraud nothing that happens in the regular season matters at all and that's
02:39what bothers you the most is that it was this mirage of a regular season from from everyone
02:44it's not just the pistons that were a 60 win team and we thought you know we earned the one
02:50seed and
02:50they were they found ways to win without cade even before the deflated well and and then it was all
02:57the other teams that for whatever reason whether it was load management guys being hurt you just have
03:04to be a hundred percent by the time the playoffs start and you're zero zero and nothing else matters
03:10they were a 44 win team last year because they outworked people last year in my mind i think
03:16they were doing the same thing last year and then you apply that to this season in an east without
03:21haliburton and tatum and then they also had the fortune of a lot of when they played some teams their
03:26best players weren't playing it's just so sitting there staring you in the eye that it's obvious
03:32they're not as good as their record is not that good well and you came out of last year's postseason
03:37with the optimism that okay hey the arrow's pointing up and and if they didn't beat new york
03:44and we we had disdain for for brunson and and everything that we if we rewind the clock we talk
03:50about but we're excited about the future right now it is completely opposite yeah i feel like there's
03:57some big time roadblocks in the way this roster is built and it's getting confirmed in a big way
04:02in a big spot and maybe that's that that what hurts is that the people who had been saying this
04:07from the national media not respecting i mean detroit's the most disrespected once maybe they just
04:13were right and maybe that hurts the most is you got these annoying dudes in new york
04:18yeah but let's not let them off the hook here in terms nobody thought this was happening no those
04:23people me included thought they were a second round team for this to happen at a minimum yeah
04:29let's get to adam and gibraltar adam good morning hey good morning guys how you doing good uh yeah i
04:37mean when i mean i when you look at the playoff rosters from last year to this year last year's
04:43playoff roster was five times better than this one i mean you have no offensive production coming off
04:50your bench let alone i mean you're starting hard away schroeder correct and you had a facilitator
04:56like the one caller was going with schroeder we don't have that you have jank into it seems like
05:01the lights are too bright for him in the playoffs right now he's just not letting the game come to
05:05him is what it's looking like he's playing a little too fast for his own his own well-being um
05:10but
05:11yeah the the playoff roster from last year was five times better than this year i mean bicker staff i
05:16mean
05:16yes he has not made adjustments on offense because magic all they're doing is collapsing that paint
05:21whenever durin or stew or anyone's getting the ball especially durin i mean you're seeing the whole
05:27time when a sars in the in the short corner and he's on suggs is on him yeah they're trying
05:34to get
05:34that little post they're trying they're trying to get that little post up with durin but suggs is
05:38immediately going over to durin and he has not they've been doing it all series he bigger staff has been
05:45not adjusted and to be fair cade with the turnovers i mean i kind of expect i mean yeah maybe
05:55like five
05:55six turnovers but like you killed him nine or nine or ten turnovers i mean that's fatigue right there
06:01the dude's coming off a collapsed lung he's not going to give that an excuse but he has no other
06:06facilitator more ball dominant guard to help him in any short in any way that's the key adam he's not
06:13playing with a collapsed lung anymore he's playing with a collapsed roster correct and that's that's
06:18the point at you know the gm and the roster construction and if you want to point fingers i
06:22mean you can blame beasley in the offseason because they were gonna sign him and then build around that
06:28and that went away so they had to go in a different direction um but i mean with this i've
06:34given bigger
06:35staff kind of like a pass because he has no one to go to on offense to even adjust the
06:40offense yeah i get
06:41it to an extent i get it to i stoney was making this point last night on on twitter it's
06:44like well
06:45you know with the roster and i agree there's some limitations with the roster at the same time you
06:48can't explain to me why duran's playing 30 minutes anymore you got a front row seat to what we're all
06:53seeing from the couch benches ass i'm done i don't need to see it place do stew defends the rims
06:58do can shoot a little bit he can switch out on the perimeter i mean it just gives you more
07:02more of the ability to play in space
07:07the worst part is losing to angel reese did angel reese leave duran at the altar he's heartbroken
07:13it's all over his face i'm kind of pissed i bought tickets to game five thinking it'd be a closeout
07:18but
07:19not this i might be going to the funeral jalen duran is just a jersey todd in detroit
07:31oh yeah i mean it's it's wednesday seven o'clock at the lca and it could be all she wrote
07:43the magic are exposing the pistons in a black light motel room that charges by the hour it's
07:48absolutely gross to watch this patrick and grand rapids your phone calls next 971
07:52you
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