00:07oh god why couldn't this weather have been saturday or sunday how is everybody we are here
00:13on a monday we have playoff basketball to discuss rico is in his caribbean green quarter zip this is
00:22a once a month ritual i'm happy to see it i'm just happy you're here man i just figured you
00:27won so much off the derby it was just going to be uh the three of us doing the show
00:32golden tempo the
00:33way i would put this is golden tempo allowed me to reclaim my dignity with a bit of a rough
00:38stretch
00:39early in the day but golden tempo brought the bacon so that was lovely also seeing mike ripoli
00:44get his guts ripped out in the last two steps you just hate to see well before we get into
00:50pistons mike i would like to thank you for making me seem like i was the smartest guy in the
00:54room
00:54why because when great white tipped over and they were like was that horse gonna run no that horse
01:01cannot run because it tipped over it has been disqualified from the race rule book rico you'll
01:07see mike because you told me that he was like no if the horse tips over and i was like
01:12wow it flipped
01:13all the way over on its back so yes thank you for me hated that or smartest man in the
01:17room i felt
01:18sorry for david until i realized my horse had already been scratched correct so you lost a horse
01:23earlier and i lost the horse right as they were entering the gates and if you want to see the
01:28rest of my horses they were 17 18 19 and 20 all right let's get to business so i'm conflicted
01:36i am
01:37i mean this i spent a lot of time thinking about this after game seven yesterday um after the punishment
01:44of friday night which was just i i can't even believe that was a real basketball game but i was
01:50conflicted you've known me for a long long time david and kenny have worked with me long long time
01:57i really lost the desire like i don't care about being right i want to entertain my audience i want
02:04to have a good time and you know let it rip but like being right is that's way in the
02:11rear view
02:11so i sat here and i'm like rico okay i was right when they were down three one i'm like
02:16guys i'm not
02:17giving up on them and here's five reasons we did the shows and then wagner getting hurt i went no
02:22no
02:22no forget about not giving up they're winning this series but i didn't feel great after yesterday
02:28see this is where i'm conflicted because i'm relieved i'm not happy relief is different than ecstasy
02:39i'm relieved that we don't have to talk about historical embarrassment so avoiding historical
02:47embarrassment i'll give you an example i didn't hit the iceberg and sink the titanic you don't get an
02:55award for base competency in life i like that i gotta use that okay like congrats i landed the plane
03:03no no we don't applaud that that's base competency congratulations i fed my kids right base competency
03:11so i know there will be a lot of people in ecstasy today but if you're like me and this
03:20is maybe my
03:21fault as a sports fan it's like i have a standard i want i know how i want a team
03:26to play and i know
03:27what i find acceptable needing seven games against this dog water team who quit on their coach who's
03:35now fired by the way who lost their best player in game four second best player in game four
03:42no no i don't celebrate that i go
03:47thank god they didn't hit the iceberg yeah does that make me bad it doesn't mike uh because i thought
03:55the same thing you won the series and you never apologized for winning but it was just the
04:01circumstances of how you won the series you had a record-breaking collapse in game six where a team
04:09missed 23 shots in a row mike i've seen a lot of high school aau and college hoops and you
04:18know what
04:18they never did miss 23 shots in a row where you scored eight points in the fourth quarter do you
04:26realize i watched two horse races in the time it took orlando to make a basket they went 45 minutes
04:32of real time because the kentucky oaks was going on mid-game how was any of that real it got
04:39to the
04:39point where it was just funny and i felt bad for every magic fan who 15 minutes earlier was sitting
04:46up there saying trying to buy tickets for the next round i don't feel bad for that and then it's
04:50like
04:50what happened here so it took that in order for you to win a seven game series yeah you came
04:58back
04:58from down three one you show toughness you showed the grit whatever fill in the blank that you want
05:04to say but it's one of those when you take a step back you're like but that was an eight
05:10seed
05:10and spare me the whole well they should have been a four seed well they weren't i should have won
05:15the
05:15mega millions but i didn't yeah and any of that goes out the window with the wagner injury so look
05:20i'm relieved and there's a level of happiness because we get playoff basketball and we don't
05:26have to talk about firing jb bicker staff or we don't have to talk about being embarrassed i think
05:32this town has dealt with enough sports wise where we're tired of being embarrassed yeah but my i want
05:39to know what the fans want because look there's another layer to this and this is where
05:45look pick a food you don't like just hear me when i say this i can't force you to like
05:52that food
05:53you just don't like it no big deal right okay i i struggle to wrap my arms around this team
06:03because i don't like them and let me be clear kade is a superstar and kade is the only guy
06:12on this
06:13team that i'd be willing to listen to what i deem nonsense but like see where you're going when you
06:21win this series you should be you should be relieved you should have some gratitude and you should be
06:27like you know what we ain't popping no bottles we are fortunate to get out of this we need to
06:33be
06:33better and we will be better instead you know what i got last night jb bicker staff up there like
06:40samuel jackson and coach carter doing this whole nobody can say bleep to me about to buy
06:45jb you're 13 and 22 in the playoffs okay you're not pat riley may want to just power that one
06:52down
06:52second of all i got jaylen durin doing a radio show monologue about how they're real dogs and they
06:59take pride and it's like no no you got walked like a dog in six of seven games thank you
07:06for showing up
07:06in game seven but you played a corpse i don't need that i don't need any of it you guys
07:12are a
07:12one seat act like it you were in the playoffs last year you gave the knicks hell act like it
07:19you know
07:19what i wanted durin to say and this is the old school person i've been watching this league since
07:231987 88 okay i would have loved if durin went up there went you know what i'm thankful for my
07:28brothers i'm thankful for my teammates they lifted me up and i need i'm gonna be better for this city
07:34i'm
07:34gonna be better for my teammates i wasn't good enough i don't need a lecture on dogs and we take
07:40it dude just stop i've never seen a team a franchise do less and act more than this one like
07:49jb let's just
07:51be real here for a moment wagner getting hurt is the only reason you're here oh and you're gonna get
07:57up
07:58there and cuss about tobias there what are we doing see that's where i struggle is i was right
08:04because i can view basketball over here right and then you know sports fan bias or whatever over here
08:10i just wish this team would do what their fans do go to work go to work don't talk about
08:17it just be
08:17about it just do what the average listener right now is driving to work when did detroit become about
08:23this what do you think some guys walking in with walking into the factory with his balls hanging out
08:27today talking about how he's a real dog no one does that that's not representing anyone
08:34what no no no but they bad example no mike they believe that they believe they have embraced and
08:42embody this detroit versus everybody and we got to go out there and show the world and it's you know
08:48that's just broad base insecurity you should have just came out and said hey you know what
08:54next i get a next series because my teammates help me out i'm gonna step my game up and we
09:00move on
09:01but you're right it's you you you you just finished a series where it was a one over an eight
09:06you don't
09:08get to really wave the white red you know do the victory lap and do all of that like that's
09:13what
09:13you're supposed to do i mean case in point that people tell me and i don't yell at me but
09:18what
09:18i didn't see okc doing all of this they said we're the one seed and we're gonna act like the
09:23one seed and we'll see you in the next round and if you get the victory lap maybe start the
09:28victory
09:28lap after you you win the eastern conference final i'd be fine with it and listen i'm not telling you
09:33approach it like a funeral and i i also i want to be clear i don't want to get away
09:37from the main thing
09:38relief or happiness i am just relieved i can't be happy about a seven game series where an injury
09:45really changed it and and you didn't play well enough to you honestly when you're here's the
09:49other part too like friday night that was one of the most bizarre sports experiences i can in recent
09:56memory for me because on one hand i want to salute them for the comeback but on the other how
10:01dare you
10:02be down by 24 how dare you be down 60 to 38 at the half i sound like john taffer
10:08you don't deserve to
10:09serve food like i just i didn't friday night was psychologically a train wreck because then the
10:17other side of it is defense only goes so far that was in orlando that was same old spartans that's
10:24like what msu used to do under saban that was losing to minnesota in the baggy dome to billy
10:30cockerham like come on so i i'm all over the place i'm relieved i know we have a good series
10:37on tap
10:38i think cleveland presents something way different than orlando but yet cleveland may lack some of the
10:44toughness up front we'll talk about it yeah but i want to know from fans are you even if it's
10:5051
10:5149 relieved or happy you're supposed to be both i know this i'm about 90 10 relief and i'm the
11:04guy
11:04who said they were going to turn this trick it's relief because my standards i guess for them
11:10are higher yeah i'm about 70 30 relief well you were there do you wear your founder's cues it
11:18for you i did yes but no teal hat uh i was i know you it's it's 70 relief because
11:27i hearken
11:28back to it took an epic epic collapse to get to game seven game seven should have never happened
11:35you were getting dog walk at halftime it was that bad and then all of a sudden orlando said wait
11:45let us show you what we can do we can't finish the series we're going to be epic we're going
11:50to be
11:50historically bad i told you last week i did not trust their ability to close anyone out much less
11:56this team let's be very i want to be very complimentary in one way to this team i may
12:00not like the way they behave the pistons are tough to kill yeah they'll lose games but they're tough
12:06to kill and i don't i didn't trust orlando to be the one to kill them and the 30 for
12:12me i liked how
12:13the other stepped up in the pressure situation of game seven and that's we all look at tobias and
12:18that's why i look at a danish jenkins and say you know what that was game seven and a lot
12:22mike as you
12:23know a lot of superstars can't function in a game seven these guys stepped up and got it done yes
12:30and tobias impressive tobias didn't score 20 points back to back once in the regular season not
12:35once five straight games with 20 or more yeah now again it's a first round series against a bad
12:40opponent but they needed him desperately uh do i think you can count on that moving forward no
12:46which means the others have to be a little bit more of the regular season version we'll get to
12:50cleveland tomorrow i want to know if it's relief or happiness from you so 248-539-9797 david i will
12:57get to you and kenny i apologize i know we're a little verbose uh but we're ready to roll on
13:02a
13:02monday rico take them to church
13:04you
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