00:00yeah yep down three one down three one and and i and i think a lot of people's minds they
00:10they're mentally burying them and i i understand why uh it's the same thing it's like the same
00:17thing and it is getting it is getting to be one of the more frustrating sports experiences i can
00:26remember in a long time there are disappointments um in single games but when you get into a seven
00:33game series you know there there can be bad games here and there and bad worse teams beat better
00:42teams but right now it's it's what's happening is the the worst team is playing way better than the
00:50better team and you know we can we can sit here and talk about ways to try and turn this
00:57thing
00:57around i'm not sure there there really is a way to turn it around the way this is going i'm
01:03i'm so
01:04disappointed in the pistons and they've run into an unexpected buzzsaw uh and i made sure i listened
01:11to stuff out of orlando last night post-game stuff and there is a lot of people that cover this
01:18team
01:18that i heard saying this is unbelievable this is not how they played and but they're playing that
01:26way now all right well i will respectfully disagree on a lot of this they have not run into a
01:32buzzsaw
01:33they're they're committing defensive buzzsaw are you right right i just started i just started to
01:39peel the onion okay all right all right because i'm i'm getting pissed because the pistons can't get
01:42anything done offense no they they can't and they're their own worst enemy too i'll give i'll give
01:48orlando some credit because they deserve some credit for certainly shutting down what's going
01:51on with jaylen duran but and making life miserable on kate the turnovers are ridiculous absolutely
01:58ridiculous they turned it over what five straight times in in the first quarter of this game they're
02:04setting the tone by just giving them the ball and it was like five of the first six possessions
02:08whatever it was insane 20 turnovers in total get out rebounded on the offensive glass 16 to 12
02:17and you know then they send the team to the free throw line a bunch of times and
02:20they're knocking those down that's a difference in the game the pistons are doing the better job
02:25defensively or another shot 33 percent how do you shoot 33 percent from the field on the game
02:33and win by six when you get offensive rebounds it's like a chance opportunity it's it's it's that's
02:38part of it the bigger part is is the turnovers and the points off the turnovers my god man
02:44i'm not here for a lot of kade hot takes today and i heard him on the morning show and
02:50i'm like all
02:50right and your conclusions about what kade can and cannot accomplish over the course of his career
02:57based upon what's going on now the the careless turnovers it's one thing he's going to turn it
03:03over he's going to be a ball dominant guards and they turn it over guys that handle the ball 40
03:08minutes a game are going to turn it over but on a three-on-one fast break when you throw
03:13the ball
03:14into the feet of your teammate into the feet it's ridiculous the the you know a lazy pass across the
03:22top of the key that gets gets taken away i i just you know it feels like the pistons everything
03:28they're trying to do they're trying to catch with one hand they're you know and then they had the
03:33the duran turnover where he goes over towards like the the sideline and tries to go behind the back to
03:39duncan robinson what the hell was that but the out of character stuff like desmond bain is shooting
03:44the ball better than he shot during the regular season then and when he misses it goes in last night
03:49he threw up an absolute brick with a three-point lead late in the game and it went in they
03:56went in
03:57and and you know and then austin rivers the way he shot the ball he deserves a little luck why
04:04does
04:04he deserve a little luck austin tell me why tell me why why does he deserve a little luck tell
04:11me why
04:11the team that the with that the ball hit the back iron went straight up in the air and dropped
04:16through
04:16the game before they're the ones that deserve a little luck look look i'm mad at the pistons
04:21primarily but that that got under my skin from austin rivers oh the way he shoots the ball he
04:27deserves a little luck why tell me why i i'd be i'm surprised there's even a locker room to to
04:32dress in
04:33uh for the pistons because it'd be i'd be ripping all apart i'd be so upset without what's happening
04:39i i thought about a post-game tan i was a post-game tantrum guy last night i mean this
04:45orlando team
04:45can't shoot they're terrible shooting the basketball throughout the entire series so far they've been
04:50terrible shooting the basketball bain is shooting above his percentage during the regular season
04:54and and they find themselves up three games to one in the series bain has made 12 of his last
05:0219 three-pointers over the last two games and yeah it was seven of 18 last night in the game
05:09okay great he's knocking on three-point shots which is that's an advantage for for orlando in the series
05:15but as a as a team they're terrible and by the way they were they shot 25 from three-point
05:23land
05:23yesterday in the game i think you have two teams that typically play pretty good defense and that's
05:27what's happening here and and orlando's getting a lot of second chance opportunities i i don't
05:32i don't put the terrible tag on them and i think the the they're playing great defense they're
05:37running they're blitzing cade and the pistons have no answers and that that to me falls a lot on jb
05:44falls a lot and it's i mean we're just we're obviously there's a lot to bitch about today and
05:51there's a lot to be disappointed in and we've covered much of it already but well the problem that
05:58they've had for the last two years that we've noticed significantly is that kate turns up all
06:05over a lot and they need someone else to bring the ball up and they don't have that guy they
06:12just
06:12don't and that's going to be what they're gonna have to figure out in the offseason now the offseason
06:17is not here yet i still think i mean it's crazy i do think this team can come back from
06:21three one and
06:21this isn't me like pie in the sky and rainbows and all that crap i don't think that's it i've
06:26been
06:26looking for silver linings i'm i'm looking at the games and i'm saying this piston team is shooting
06:32better than the orlando team significantly and they're still losing why because they turned the
06:37ball over stop turning the ball over with that kind of regularity all right i'm not saying go
06:43turn over less or only commit six turnovers in the game i know that's not in your dna
06:48but you can work that number down from 20 for crying out loud that's what's killing you that the
06:55the offensive rebounding and and free throw shooting those are three aspects that are just
06:58killing them and and they can't improve on that stuff well i i was intrigued to hear what the
07:07orlando take was and i was also intrigued to hear that they're pretty stunned like they can't believe
07:13how well their team is playing example is wendell carter jr nullifying jaylen duran
07:21that that is something they did not expect that is something that they think is out of character
07:27bane with some big shots a lot of big shots i'm getting sick of him but at the end of
07:32the day
07:34no i mean they're a team with deficiencies and and detroit is getting outplayed by that team
07:42that's what blows my mind i actually think i want to give orlando a little bit of credit
07:49but not as much as maybe you are doug defensively they're they're a pretty good team offensively
07:54they're terrible i just think detroit's the worst team and that's why they're losing the series i
07:58think it looks like two bad teams and detroit's the worst team of the two and they're down three to
08:03one for it orlando hasn't been consistent all year long whether it's injuries or offensive efficiency
08:09problems they're just not that good of a team when it mattered the most at the end of the season
08:14they had to play the celtics to avoid this play-in game the celtics benched everybody because they're
08:19locked in at the two seed the celtics beat the magic when the magic had to have it the next
08:24game
08:24was the playing game against the sixers the sixers blew out the magic when the magic had to have it
08:28so now the magic are playing for the playoff lives against charlotte and they beat charlotte
08:32and get in there my point is they played three games in five days weren't supposed to be that good
08:36and then they beat detroit in game one all the magic fans are shocked the whole nba fan base
08:42is shocked even with all the things we said about detroit not being a real one seed or a fake
08:4760
08:48win team no one had them losing in the first round all their deficiencies and all that stuff we thought
08:53would show up maybe in the second and third round all the red flags all the you know warts all
08:57the
08:57flaws second round the first round to the magic is unacceptable and yeah they got to limit the
09:03turnovers they got to do so much they got to shoot better this is all self-inflicted it just seems
09:07like they're the worst team to me doug i just i i don't want to give lando too much credit
09:11i don't think they're a good team oh we've got 82 games of evidence that they're the worst team
09:15in this series they've been the better team i think it's because detroit's the worst team though
09:22whatever however you want to characterize it we're getting to the same conclusion
09:26yeah they're down 3-1 and fighting for their lives come wednesday yeah 248-539-9797 the venting
09:34well people have a lot to say and we will get to your phone calls coming up it is karshan
09:38anderson on 97.1
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