00:00I'm intrigued.
00:03You laid in bed last night thinking other than play better,
00:07make more shots.
00:10How could this thing get corrected?
00:12What'd you come up with?
00:14You're not going to like this, Doug.
00:16Oh boy.
00:18Kate Cunningham has to start foul baiting and flopping.
00:21And I'm dead serious.
00:22I hate that style of play as well, Doug,
00:24but that's the only hope at this point.
00:26I can't count on Duncan Robinson and Jenkins
00:29and other players to start all of a sudden hitting three-point shots.
00:31If they do, fantastic.
00:33But other than that, Kate Cunningham needs to start flopping
00:36and getting to the line.
00:38He is being blitzed and pressured on every time,
00:41even without the ball.
00:42Do you see him when he's trying to go through screens?
00:44Kane is all over him, hands on his back, pulling his jersey.
00:47They're not calling it because Kate is too ethical.
00:50Dude, fall down.
00:51Pull your inner SGA out of yourself and just flop.
00:55Get the calls.
00:56Last night in the fourth quarter,
00:58they hit the bonus very early.
01:01He should have been getting to the line nonstop.
01:04Forget trying to make shots.
01:05No one on the team can make shots.
01:07There's no assist because no one's making any shots.
01:09I know they were bad at the line,
01:11but more times than not,
01:12Cade's going to make those free throws.
01:13Get to the line.
01:14Start flopping.
01:16I want to see Jalen Brunson a la Cade Cunningham
01:18out there for game five.
01:19They have to do it.
01:21I can't count on Dern to score any points.
01:23Am I wrong?
01:25Doug?
01:30I can't tell you how much I hate that you might be right.
01:35Yeah.
01:35Look at that.
01:36Gator.
01:37They can't generate any offense.
01:39He's got to start flopping.
01:41He's got to start getting to the line.
01:43You're supposedly a superstar in this league,
01:45in the MVP running.
01:47Dude, use it.
01:50This might qualify at the same time
01:53as the single best and most disgusting take
01:58all at the same time.
01:59Everyone else does it.
02:01So why not you?
02:03I liked your other take today you had earlier.
02:06Everyone else does it.
02:08You had a better take earlier today.
02:10Which was what?
02:11Change of uniforms.
02:12Oh, yeah.
02:13I got to change the uniforms.
02:14This is what I'm doing now, Gator.
02:16But seriously, change the uniforms and start flopping.
02:19Because you guys see it.
02:21They're all over him.
02:22He can't fight through screens.
02:23No.
02:24Have it in your bag, at least.
02:25Yes.
02:26Right?
02:26You have to.
02:27They run two guys at you.
02:28Yep.
02:29Oh!
02:30Yeah.
02:31Just don't fall flat on your face like Wemby does.
02:33Well, he's like a baby giraffe out there.
02:35That was tough.
02:36But yeah, don't hurt yourself.
02:38But I think you got to start working the reps.
02:40Yeah.
02:40JB, too.
02:40Yeah.
02:41This is where we're at in this series.
02:43You might be right.
02:46God, that's disgusting.
02:47Because you don't want it to be this way in the league.
02:51I can't stand Trey Young.
02:53Jalen Duren, SGA.
02:54I hate the way they play.
02:58But they're good at that.
03:02Unethical SOBs.
03:03And now you're endorsing it.
03:05Absolutely.
03:05Now you're endorsing it.
03:06I'm desperate.
03:06You might be right.
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03:10Let's go to John of Roseville.
03:12Hello, John.
03:13Hey, guys.
03:14Sad morning.
03:16Yes.
03:17King just made one of my points.
03:19I got a couple points.
03:20Yeah.
03:21Six minutes, you're in the bonus at the end of the game.
03:24And you're stuck taking these awkward perimeter shots.
03:29And my other point was, J.B. Bickerstaff is apparently failing to rely on his players.
03:36All season long, the strength of this team was their depth.
03:41I mean, Ron Holland can drive the lane.
03:43He hasn't seen the court.
03:46It was torture watching that starting lineup yesterday.
03:50It really was.
03:51And I think a lot of it falls on J.B.
03:53I mean, it's his responsibility.
03:55Is four minutes without a field goal not enough to start subbing your guys?
04:01Is he watching the same game?
04:03I mean, I know he's dealing with, you know, epic collapses from key players.
04:09But, you know, those guys were injured.
04:12We played games with Durin, with all them guys sitting on the bench, and we won games.
04:17And Orlando is too comfortable right now.
04:20They know they got this thing wrapped.
04:22And he's just sitting there watching it happen.
04:25It's torture.
04:26I mean, Paul Reed came in the other night, got to the hoop within seconds.
04:31You know, and with six and a half minutes, you're in the bonus.
04:35You should have been taking 30 free throws at the end of that game.
04:38John, thank you for the phone call.
04:39Martin in Livonia is next on 97.1.
04:41Hello, Martin.
04:43Boys, look good.
04:45Martin, what's happening?
04:47Nothing.
04:47Listen, you guys, give me a couple minutes, and then you can interrupt me.
04:50You get 60 seconds.
04:52Everyone gets 60 seconds.
04:53Your clock is running.
04:54Number one, Cade ain't the guy, okay?
04:56You don't go seven for 20.
04:58You might not get to 60.
05:00Listen, special moments are made in the playoffs, not during the regular season.
05:04And for you to choke the last two minutes and can't make a shot just is mind-boggling.
05:08Number two, Bickerstaff can't get over the hump.
05:11He couldn't do it in Cleveland, and that's his biggest fault.
05:14And that's why I think you don't see the subs and all that.
05:16But it's like he chokes.
05:18Number three.
05:19Well, hold on a second.
05:19Let me ask you this, Martin.
05:20Was he really given the opportunity to get over a hump in Cleveland, or was it like just
05:24one season where they made the playoffs there and that was it?
05:28I mean, it's kind of continuing here, though, isn't it, Gator?
05:30He's got one season.
05:31He's failing.
05:32I mean, last year they were the lesser seed.
05:34They lost.
05:34And then this year, this year is different.
05:36This year it's ugly.
05:38If he wins in the preseason and we can't even beat an Orlando Magic, I know they got their
05:42boys back.
05:42Well, he's not doing a good job, but real quick, real quick, what's your third point?
05:47Third point is go get McCullough.
05:49Do what you got to do to get him from Atlanta.
05:51He can help out Cade.
05:53He can be the guy that can kick up and shoot the threes, because that guy can play some
05:56ball.
05:57Cade's been great in the fourth quarter.
05:58He was not last night.
05:59To say Cade's not the guy at the age of 24, when he's their best player, reeks of Stafford
06:05will never win a Super Bowl take.
06:07That reeks of that.
06:08And run the best player out of town because you're mad, because the other guys on the
06:13team aren't getting the job done, so you blame the best player.
06:16Who, by the way, has been good in the fourth quarter on a couple occasions in this series.
06:23But please, spare me that Cade's not the guy based on last night.
06:28He was not last night.
06:30And it sucked, okay?
06:32But he's 24 years old.
06:35And if you feel like Cade's the guy that's letting the Pistons down in this postseason,
06:41well then, we are seeing a completely different series.
06:44He's averaging 29 and a half a game.
06:46And he has been big in fourth quarters.
06:50Not last night.
06:53Anything to add?
06:55I'm not happy with you.
06:56Why?
06:57For drawing, because you did something now that I recognize is probably going to be a
07:02thing here for years.
07:03What?
07:04You just made the Stafford comparison to Cade Cunningham.
07:08And you're spot on with it, because this is what's going to happen.
07:12People are going to blame the worst player, who has his faults for sure, just like Stafford
07:16had his faults.
07:17But he's not the sole reason.
07:20Stafford went to a better situation and did what people said he couldn't do.
07:25Greg in a cell.
07:26You're on 97.1.
07:27Hello, Greg.
07:30Yeah.
07:31Go ahead.
07:32Yep, go ahead.
07:34Yeah.
07:34First time caller.
07:35I'll be listening to you guys all the time.
07:37Anyway, I just want to make a few points.
07:40Vernon Bixf, he got outcoached last night.
07:43He had to play the right key people.
07:45He had Duncan Robertson in there, and they was going right at him all the time.
07:49Until they got him out of there.
07:50I mean, you got to play Paul Reed.
07:53He can score.
07:53He can rebound.
07:54He can defend.
07:55He didn't play him at all.
07:56That don't make no sense.
07:58And Cade, he ain't been 100% since he's been back from his injury.
08:02I mean, he's a collapsed lung.
08:03There's nothing to play around with.
08:04He's not 100%.
08:06They would never tell you that, though.
08:08So, you know, honestly, they got to play better.
08:10They got to play like they want it.
08:13They're getting outplayed right now.
08:14That's plain and simple.
08:17Well, J.B. Bickerstaff has got to find some answers.
08:21He's got to find some answers.
08:23I don't know.
08:24Cade's averaging like 30 points a game.
08:25I think he's recovered from the collapsed lung.
08:28I think he has, too.
08:29I think that just reeks of an excuse.
08:32248-539-9797.
08:34Darren and Troy.
08:35Hi, Darren.
08:36Hi, all, Darren.
08:37What's up?
08:39So, guys, a few calls before me used the word insulted.
08:42I want to use the word disgusted.
08:44We saw glaring holes in this roster in the regular season that we all talked about with the lack of
08:50shooting, the lack of scoring.
08:52We don't have an extra ball handler.
08:53Dennis Jenkins is not a playoff NBA point guard to be getting consistent minutes in the playoffs.
09:01This is a team.
09:02We need people that can stretch the floor.
09:04We need wings that stretch the floor, bigs that stretch the floor.
09:07I'm disgusted with the incompetence and just unwillingness to make moves.
09:14And there's the lack of understanding from Trajan Langdon to not see the glaring holes in this roster and to
09:20do nothing at the deadline.
09:22And I called just a few, a couple months ago after the deadline and said, if we were going to
09:27wait and see what happens in the playoffs and his job will be on the line, depending on what happens.
09:33God knows I didn't expect it to be this bad, but this is just.
09:37Hold on.
09:38Let me stop you.
09:38When you say jobs on the line, you would fire him if they lose this series.
09:43His job would be on the line.
09:44Absolutely.
09:45You would fire him if they lose this series.
09:48I think so.
09:49Okay.
09:50I want to get to the trade deadline.
09:53And you had an interesting take off the air that I want to get to next.
09:56And this is, this is, you know, what all people complain about Detroit teams.
10:01They don't think the GMs are aggressive enough at the trade deadline.
10:06And we'll talk about what Langdon did or did not do coming up at 1131 here on Carson.
10:10But Holmes would fire him if they lose, if they lose a series.
10:13Brad Holmes would fire him?
10:14No, this dude who just called.
10:1597-1.
10:18Pharisee.
10:189.
10:19Pharisee.
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