00:03we got stoney in today spent the weekend in the land of multiple sweeps that's right flyers got
00:11swept by the carolina hurricanes on saturday and sunday the uh sixers got bitch slapped sweep
00:17swept by the new york knicks and uh madison square garden south and i imagine there are a lot of
00:25nick
00:25fans who've already purchased whether they're you know hotels for here and things like that they
00:30travel look they haven't won a championship since 1973 willis reed right yes i don't think they're
00:36gonna win this year either because i think it's coming out of the west so oklahoma city looks
00:41unstoppable i know um yeah what did you make of your sports city getting taken over by nick fans
00:46and then by the way just literally taken over i mean sweeping up on the streets crashing into you
00:51no camera shots look i don't blame them people that do not like the owner at all partly because
00:58he also owns the devils and the washington com uh commanders so you know you're a sixer fan and
01:04you're a fly an eagle fan and this guy owns the commanders one of your rivals in your division
01:10uh look there's they've always been a love-hate relationship with that team i mean if you want
01:15to go back to like the late 70s early 80s they had a game seven easter sunday against milwaukee this
01:22is when julius erving this is when the six are really good they got about 8 000 people across
01:29the street at the vet at the time where the phillies were playing they had like 39 000
01:37it's weird yeah it's very it's a weird dynamic but they they were horrible from them in most of
01:43that series the knicks are playing great basketball speaking of that hot off the press odds championship
01:50odds for the nba yeah the knicks have jumped to a six to one chance to win the nba championship
01:56that's third behind the spurs and then obviously the thunder still heavy favorites pistons are 18 to
02:02one the knicks are six to one the pistons are 18 to one what are the calves 50 to one
02:08okay you know
02:10it does make sense to a certain extent because the knicks are playing great but but am i wrong that
02:16like i want that series oh and for for a lot of reasons because i think the crowd because there
02:23will be
02:24a lot of new york fans there the place will be buzzing that pistons are certainly not intimidated
02:31by madison square garden hell they won their two games last year uh in the playoffs there uh they
02:37bitch slapped them in the regular season this repeatedly but i don't think that meant i don't
02:41think that makes a difference no but i what i'm saying is i think the pistons clearly have
02:47a focus and a hatred of the knicks they didn't want to just beat the knicks in the regular season
02:53they wanted to embarrass them emasculate them run up the score on them make spike lee look dejected
02:58that's because they thought they were shall we say screwed by the non-call and tim hardaway three
03:04i think right but now that that becomes the backdrop and the animosity and the intensity if
03:09we get that series it'll be great really good you know you know still and chalamet will be here i
03:15mean they travel it'll be it'll be fun just one more note about the knicks being such a heavy
03:21favorite over the pistons the knicks are also two games further along than the pistons and had and
03:27have advanced to the next round correct that's going to be baked into these odds and and they
03:32will have at least a week rest probably you assume i'm not sure exactly when the eastern conference
03:37finals is going to start it whether you know it goes five or seven games are they gonna it's gonna
03:42be the same date i have no idea but the knicks won't be playing for a while well let's start
03:48there
03:49how long do you think this series goes what is your outlook on the pistons and calves after game three
03:55it might change i had cleveland winning in six uh which look they're gonna have to win a game
04:01at lca to win the series like i i get that that's and they haven't won a road game yet
04:07in this post
04:08season right but the pistons have shown me that they are definitely not just regular season but
04:14playoff bound even you know playoff ready they're i think they're just as good as cleveland if if not a
04:20little better now things become a little dicier uh if they lose tonight and so i've altered a
04:27little bit i think the pistons will win the series in seven games so you say oh well boy you
04:31can't
04:32lose your but who cares about the prediction yeah i'm just asking you today yeah things change you're
04:36allowed to change by the evidence that you see yeah look we're asking to call in right now to talk
04:42about the series right now i really don't care what you said last week exactly weeks ago how do you
04:47feel
04:47after seeing your team go up to oh and then dropping game three yeah how do you think this
04:52series goes how many games and who wins two four eight five three nine 97 97 how does game three
04:57change your outlook if at all because when you look at the series so far games two and three were
05:02pretty
05:02much the same same was you know different team winning but each team making a really nice comeback
05:10cleveland actually took the lead for a second in the fourth quarter in game two the pistons tied it
05:15and but you thought they had all the momentum you thought that they might you know win and just
05:20put the you know the nail of the coffin here and they didn't yeah i don't want to overreact to
05:25game
05:26three no i thought cleveland did what teams with a pulse do when backed into a corner going home down
05:31to nothing they shoot their best they play their best hell james harden looked more like you know
05:37previous younger iterations james harden yeah but but do i believe that is what's going to show up
05:43game over game over game and in road spots right because they have to go and win in detroit at
05:49some
05:49point yeah i i don't so my belief is the pistons are going to win this series regardless of what
05:54happened on on saturday and if they win tonight i think it's in five oh i do too now if
05:59they lose
05:59tonight then i think we're probably going seven yeah and i'll take cade and company with this defense
06:04at home over cleveland and god forbid they lose game five and going to cleveland down three two
06:10i'm not willing to say that it's over either yeah you're not going to kill this team off no
06:14because they've proven that with their backs to the wall they can come back and do some things
06:19they just need better play from some of their stars yeah my point is even if the pistons were to
06:26lose
06:26game four tonight on the road barring some catastrophic injury i'm not coming in tomorrow
06:31selling oh no the pistons are in trouble they'll have home court they'll still be in control of this
06:36series to your point they've shown when facing elimination what they can do yes i feel like
06:42they're winning this series regardless of what i saw on saturday saturday felt like more of an
06:48outlier now they have a chance i suppose tonight to show that that they're that they're going to be
06:53in this for the long haul they can't live on a recipe of being down double digits you know in
06:58the
06:58first half in the third quarter and then all of a sudden you you know you're going to come back
07:02yes basketball is the quote game of runs but you can't live by that game in game out yeah you
07:10know
07:10who else can't do that the calves right i was just kind of done it twice yes but i point
07:15this out
07:16cleveland's win game three the pistons shot the ball 17 more times
07:23is that really the recipe to win is to give the other team 17 more shots than you
07:28no on the series the pistons have shot 20 more so it hasn't been some wild swings the other way
07:36i'm sorry like that's that's not sustainable for cleveland no let's get to chris you're next up
07:42you're on 97 one hey fellas yeah i think uh i think cleveland uh i think they were in overdrive
07:50last
07:50game uh i think it showed that they were in overdrive i think they're running out of gas i think
07:54that
07:54was james harden swan song the force of game five but we're going to come out tonight and just do
08:00exactly what we need to do just play this piston basketball that's it we don't have to do anything
08:05more cleveland's going to run out of gas we're going to whoop them tonight back to game five close
08:10it out and onward to the nick well i i somewhat agree with you but i do want to caution
08:14one thing
08:14when you say play piston basketball i assume you're meaning the piston basketball that we've seen the
08:20last year or two and that piston basketball uh had jalen duran making significant contributions
08:27so they have to go back to not this playoff edition of piston basketball but the regular season if they
08:37can or even last year even though they lost in six games and they need duran to be either the
08:43second
08:43or third option to win this series yes i don't think so i think i could i think they could
08:50win
08:50this series with duran being the guy he was in games one and two where he wasn't one of their
08:55top
08:55players he just kind of did his his thing around the rim right yeah we need jalen duran to unleash
09:02a
09:02little bit of ben wallace we need him to be more aggressive and really really own the paint uh he
09:07seems a
09:08little timid this year but that could change that could change with a snap of a finger but i think
09:14they could win this series if he's their fourth best player because it means tobias is dropping 20 a
09:18night it means assar is playing the best defense of anybody on either team that would make duran
09:22their fourth best player and i think that still gets them through this series yes kade's kade kade's
09:27got a robin and harris he's got a a lead defensive player and assar if those things are rolling the
09:32pistons can win this series yeah absolutely uh by the way coming up shortly there has been a leak
09:40for at least one of the opening games for the nfl schedule
09:46what are you guys laughing about back there
09:50stoney's leak it's not a leak it was announced on the today show it's a little more than a leak
09:54okay well if you're listening in the car right now you have no idea what it is we'll tell you
09:58yes
09:5997 one
10:0098 one
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