00:00Rico, I welcome you to Nona's table because there's a chair waiting for you.
00:06And it's up to you whether you want to let Nona serve you a plate of food.
00:10The Pistons won last night.
00:12So you know what that means.
00:15Play the song.
00:16No, no, no.
00:18No.
00:21Look, we've discussed this.
00:22If you listen to yesterday's show, I stood alone and I offered you five reasons that I think they can
00:28win this series.
00:28That as bad as it looks on paper, down 3-1, the Franz Wagner injury materially changes the series.
00:36What happened last night?
00:38No Wagner.
00:39Cade drops 50.
00:41It's not coincidental.
00:43It's that the main defender for Cade, especially in the second halves of these games, is not there.
00:51It changes everything.
00:53And I understand.
00:54If the Magic makes some free throws, they probably win the game.
00:57I get it.
00:58They didn't.
00:59We talked about how role players would lessen on the road and yours would play better at home.
01:07Here's the biggest evidence as to why I think I'm going to be right and why the Pistons will win
01:12this series.
01:12And again, I have no reason to lie to you.
01:16I don't even like this team.
01:18I find their style of play abhorrent.
01:20But I call it like I see it.
01:22I'm telling you, Orlando's not that good.
01:25You just had to pull your head out of your ass.
01:28But here's how I know I'm going to be right.
01:30And this is where it's up to Rico if he wants to sit at Nona's table.
01:35In the Knicks-Hawks series, Knicks are up 3-2.
01:41Do you know what the Knicks are our favorite to win the series?
01:45Minus 850.
01:47The Celtics and Sixers.
01:49Celtics are up 3-2 in the series.
01:51Do you know what the Celtics are to win that series?
01:55Minus 500.
01:56Minus 2200.
01:57Meaning you get plus 1100 on Philly if you think the dog is coming back.
02:02Okay.
02:02How about the Cleveland Cavaliers?
02:04They're up 3-2 in their series against Toronto.
02:06It's been hotly contested.
02:07They're minus 1600.
02:09So you get plus 1,000 on the Raptors to win that series.
02:13And then that would bring us to the Detroit Pistons and the Orlando Magic.
02:18Now, the Magic are up 3-2 in that series.
02:20Correct.
02:20I've already told you what the other favorites are favored by.
02:23Minus 850.
02:24Yes.
02:24Minus 2200.
02:25Minus 1600.
02:27What do you think the Magic are favored to win this series?
02:32Minus 150.
02:34Minus 140.
02:35The Pistons are almost even money to win this now.
02:39I told you yesterday at plus 200 it looked really, really depreciated.
02:44And I went, dude, I'm telling you, Vegas is baking this in.
02:47They're not stupid.
02:48They know.
02:49That's where you couldn't bet the Pistons plus 200 to win the series.
02:53It's not worth it.
02:54But now, after winning a home game, a league game, a game you're supposed to win, they're
03:01almost even money.
03:02They're plus 120.
03:03I'm asking, would you like a seat at Nona's table?
03:07There's one left.
03:09I know you're going to game seven.
03:11Don't lie to me.
03:12You bought tickets.
03:13Don't lie.
03:14I did.
03:15So, do you want a seat at Nona's table?
03:17Or I'm giving it to someone else.
03:19This is the last seat.
03:21They're going to win tomorrow.
03:23Wagner's not going to play.
03:25Okay?
03:25Right.
03:26I'm telling you he's not going to play.
03:28This is coming back to Detroit for game seven.
03:31Right.
03:31And the magic will wither because they're booty.
03:35Not coming back to Detroit, Mike.
03:38You know what?
03:38I'm going to have to pass on that seat.
03:40Okay.
03:41Only because in watching the game, I know the Pistons won, and I think they wired them
03:45to start to finish.
03:47Well, technically, they won again.
03:47They won again.
03:49Play the music.
03:49Don't.
03:52But I look at this, and I do think that when they go back to Orlando, it's going to fuel
03:58some of their try-hard guys.
04:01It's going to get them fired up.
04:03You're going to see players playing out of their mind the way Asar did last night with
04:08the 15 rebounds and, you know, invoking the spirit of Dennis Rodman.
04:14I don't, because I looked at that game, and yeah, it was very evenly contested.
04:21So I'm going to give them the advantage of being at home.
04:24Hold on.
04:25Now, may I push back on something?
04:27Go ahead.
04:29How many times did Orlando have the lead?
04:31They didn't.
04:31They never did.
04:32If you get wired, don't give me evenly matched.
04:35No, no.
04:35Mike, when I looked at it, and yes, I know what you said before, but when all of a sudden
04:41this team just could not make a free throw, I was like, if they hit free throws, this is
04:48a different thing.
04:49This is a different game.
04:50They couldn't, I understand.
04:53But when I looked at it, I expected the Pistons to boat race them.
04:57I expected the Pistons to win that thing by about 20.
05:00When they had the lead at 17, I expected them to keep it that way and push it even further.
05:05What I didn't expect is Orlando with a chance to tie the game with about 30 seconds to go.
05:12So, if I flip that and I take it back to Orlando, I'm not feeling good.
05:17Now, if they get past Orlando, then yes, they win it.
05:20But I don't think that they get out of Orlando because I think the city, well, not the city
05:25of Orlando, but being back at home is going to inspire some of their tryhards, their others
05:30off the bench.
05:31No Wagner, no peace.
05:33Sorry.
05:34Series is over.
05:36No Wagner, no chance.
05:38Told you yesterday.
05:39This is going to be a repeat.
05:41They'll go down there.
05:42It's going to be the same damn thing.
05:43They don't have anybody to guard Cade now.
05:45No, they don't.
05:45So, game over.
05:48David, go ahead.
05:48You're the ultimate hater.
05:50Do you want to see the notice table?
05:52He turned it down.
05:54Yeah, no, I don't want to see.
05:55Yeah, you don't.
05:56You don't.
05:57It doesn't matter what I say.
05:58You don't believe.
05:59No, I don't believe.
06:00I just don't see it.
06:03Paolo went back and forth with Cade, and we still, we almost lost that game because
06:08of that.
06:09So, they can't D-up him?
06:11Then what the heck, man?
06:13I just don't see it.
06:14I just don't see it.
06:16It's giving these fans hope.
06:17They're going to lose Friday.
06:20Kenny Cott, you're the last man standing.
06:24Swish.
06:27Do you want to join me?
06:30They're winning the series.
06:32I said it yesterday.
06:33I'm going to say it again.
06:34Vegas is telling you right now this is a coin flip.
06:37Right.
06:38No Wagner.
06:38He's not going to play tomorrow night.
06:41No Wagner.
06:43And all the pressure now is on Orlando.
06:46Going back to their barn.
06:48Everything is going to be like pins and needles for them going back there.
06:54I will say the Pistons win game six.
06:57I think game seven is the coin flip because I think the Pistons are, at the end of the
07:02day, a fraudulent playoff team.
07:05So, I will take a seat at your table, and then I'll flip the coin with you.
07:09No, no, no, no, no, no.
07:11No.
07:11But, Kenny, let me say this.
07:14I don't think all the pressure is going to be on Orlando because I think the pressure
07:17is still on the Pistons.
07:18They won 60 games.
07:19They have a one seed.
07:20They don't want to get embarrassed.
07:21They don't want to get put out.
07:23So, there will be pressure on the Pistons in game six.
07:25I'm not saying there's no.
07:26Everyone's written them off.
07:27I'm not saying there's no pressure on the Pistons.
07:29Everybody, listen, the Pistons already know everybody thinks they're garbage juice.
07:33There's no pressure.
07:34They've already been written off.
07:35You don't want to reinforce the fact that you are garbage juice.
07:37No pressure.
07:38No Wagner.
07:39No chance.
07:39I tried to tell you yesterday.
07:42Look, I just want to know who wants to join.
07:45Do I want it to happen?
07:46Not really.
07:47Because I don't think this front office deserves to have joy.
07:49I don't think they deserve to get away with what they did at the deadline.
07:53But that's not how life works.
07:54And I understand what you're saying, Mike.
07:57And when the Pistons had that big lead, I was feeling like, okay, yeah, they have this.
08:01But the fact that their try-hards, their others really kind of kept this thing a lot closer
08:07than it should have been.
08:08And now they get to go home.
08:11That's where I can't join you at the table.
08:14Well, you're not invited anymore.
08:15You're done.
08:162-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
08:19Nona, don't play.
08:20I offered you a seat.
08:21Lasagna's getting cold.
08:22You're out.
08:23Get out.
08:24So am I just parking cars now?
08:26You can do whatever you want.
08:27You ain't sitting at the table.
08:282-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
08:32Let's open it up to PistonFam.
08:34And if you don't believe, tell me why.
08:36I gave you the five reasons yesterday, and I can recite them again.
08:40One is Orlando's not that good.
08:42They're not playing that well.
08:43Now, you could say Orlando played well last night.
08:46They hit 17 three-pointers.
08:47That's a complete outlier.
08:48They didn't win.
08:51No, Wagner materially changes the series.
08:53We talked about it.
08:54We told you about his matchup against Cade.
08:56And without him, weird.
08:58Cade drops 50 like it's NBA jam.
09:01That's a major development.
09:02And Wagner is not going to play tomorrow night.
09:05So did, Paulo dropped 45.
09:08So it doesn't matter.
09:10What does that matter?
09:13Cade is the best player in the series, and Cade had had a horrible series.
09:16Paulo's had a good series.
09:18Cade being Cade is the most impactful thing in the series.
09:23Paulo's going to give you a really good performance every night.
09:27Here's the other thing.
09:28Paulo's numbers all were in a trail position.
09:30Ooh, I'm down 12, and I just banged another three.
09:33Like, I get it, Rico, but ultimately we needed Cade to be Cade, right?
09:37Right, but here's what I think, Mike.
09:39Those two realize this is – you might as well tell everybody else to sit down
09:44and just let them play a game of one-on-one, of horse.
09:47Because both players know in order to advance to the next round, it's on me.
09:52That Paulo knows I have to carry this magic team to the second round.
09:56Just like Cade knows he's got to do the same.
09:59That was impressive of last night, especially late in the game.
10:02Well, that's good.
10:03Because they were going back to back.
10:04That's good.
10:05Now with no Wagner, I trust Cade more than Paulo.
10:07Okay.
10:07Period.
10:08I mean, Paulo is still capable of looking quite pedestrian.
10:13Cade, even with the turnovers, Rico, has still largely been okay.
10:17Really bad in game four.
10:19Didn't love that.
10:20Look, I'm asking Piston fans, you do whatever you want.
10:23But I laid it out yesterday.
10:25I just – nothing that happened last night is going to change it.
10:28I mean, did I feel great about last night?
10:30No.
10:31I think, Rico, your point is well taken.
10:33Should they have blown this team?
10:34Yes.
10:35But you can also go, all right, how many YOLO threes is this team going to hit?
10:39They're not a good three-point shooting team, and yet there they were with 17.
10:43Pistons kind of did what they did.
10:44They made nine or ten of them.
10:46Right.
10:46So where are you?
10:46Minus 21 from the three-point line.
10:48You still won the game by seven.
10:50Yes, the free throw thing, I guess my offset mentally is, well,
10:54take away a couple of the BS threes that Orlando hit,
10:57and I'll give you six free throws, and we'll call it even.
10:59I don't know.
11:01I got you.
11:01Nothing changes.
11:02Was Duren really good?
11:04But no, he had the seven points early and then vaped out basically for the rest of the game.
11:08Had one nice put-back dunk late.
11:10Had a really nice offensive rebound late.
11:12Cool.
11:13Good for you.
11:1340 million a year.
11:14But as far as everything else goes, without Wagner, I really don't understand
11:22how Orlando's going to close this team out.
11:24And from what it sounds like, he's not playing tomorrow either.
11:27And if it gets back here to game seven and you're sitting in Mason's chair in the Founders' Q-Zip
11:33doing the open,
11:34no, they're winning.
11:36Can't lose.
11:37Kenny, how does it go?
11:38The nine?
11:41It doesn't go at all.
11:42It doesn't go at all because I'm not letting him play that.
11:49All right, I'll have to come up with something new.
11:53Wouldn't take much for that old cliche they got down there.
11:562-4-8-5-3-9-90-7-97.
11:59Can't take it.
12:00Post game's happening.
12:01Poor Cassidy Hubbard's trying to do an interview and all you hear is Mason screaming at the top of his
12:06lungs talking to thin air.
12:11At the end of the game.
12:13Rico, folding chair.
12:15At the end of the game, everybody wanted to scream Detroit basketball.
12:23I'd rather get hit by a car.
12:252-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
12:29Here's Rico.
12:30We will talk to Piston Fan next.
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