00:02what's the final count 23 unanswered points for cleveland yes stellar yeah that third
00:09quarters where the game got out of hand actually i think it was 22 because one of his threes got
00:13changed to a two so only a 22 yes only 22 yeah good morning 97 one we got stoney in
00:21fresh off
00:22a live restore the floor you guys have been doing these after pistons games quick turnaround you
00:27were venting last night we're giving people a chance to vent this morning there's a lot to
00:31complain about the only good thing i could say from last night is there were dollar wings oh okay
00:37i thought you were going to mention like karis levert oh i feel like they wasted a karis levert
00:41game i don't think we're getting another one in the series probably not but you know you obviously
00:45don't need it to win because they got it and they lost and they didn't have it they won two
00:51games
00:52no i know and look it's there's no shortage of things to point out that went wrong to me there
00:57are three things i'll single out one donovan mitchell yes i mean we can bitch about our team
01:03but let's give it up to the guy who drops 39 points ties a postseason record for a half finished
01:08with 43 and he made everything yeah he was in his bag step back threes high off the glass getting
01:14in
01:14the lane and most of them were just you know swish i mean they weren't even he had that one
01:19banker
01:19no shooter had the bank shot uh but still they weren't even you know any rim have his shots i
01:27just i i'm i'm gonna give it up to him he was unbelievable last night for the calves second
01:32thing for me durin you got twice as many turnovers as rebounds this insistence that he must close out
01:39games must play 30 minutes some mumbo jumbo bs about confidence i'm sorry i don't need to see him
01:45play these kind of minutes not when b ball paul comes in and is twice as productive in half the
01:49minutes i don't need to see it you want to tell me asar played himself off the floor okay why
01:55is
01:55durin treated differently well asar is another person who had a horrible game that should be
02:00listed here well and i think that goes hand in hand with why mitchell goes off i mean if if
02:04asar is
02:05playing himself onto the floor it gives jb another tool to try to break up mitchell's rhythm but i'll
02:10be honest i didn't see a lot of asar on mitchell which feels like a jb uh um whiff as
02:16well he beat
02:16him a few times early too i mean but that's the best perimeter defender in the nba allegedly the
02:21guy's going for damn near 50 it felt like you got to try to throw him on him and try
02:26to throw a wrench
02:26in what's working he didn't look good yesterday i don't know what the hell happened to him that was
02:30like the worst game i've ever seen him play because usually look he's not going to be an offensive
02:36machine but usually his defense is elite it was the opposite of elite right my third thing was
02:42officiating and i loathe to do it it normally feels like excuse making i don't you guys know
02:47you've listened to me i'm very hesitant to ever make officiating the story but when one team the
02:54pistons shoots 60 times inside the arc wins points in the paint and has 12 free throws versus
03:01cleveland a team that shoots more threes than twos gets to the line 34 times i'm sorry a plus 22
03:10disparity given the way the teams play they go a quarter without a foul mitchell shoots more free
03:17throws than the pistons as a team that's egregious and i'm glad jb politicked after the game i hate
03:22that this is what the nba is they bitch about it now you got to bitch about it to try
03:26to make it even
03:27steven yeah i thought last night was egregious i i am i am not that guy so i hope i
03:33get a little grace
03:33when i bitch about the officiating today that was terrible it was it was awful uh but i'm gonna put
03:40ahead of that is jb for some of the reasons that you mentioned as far as substitutions with durin
03:49and assar but i i understand he's not the one playing defense i understand he's not the one
03:57missing shots but when you start a game down 11 to 2 that's a problem they have bad starts in
04:05a lot of
04:10run yeah well you know seriously and then look we've seen it instances where coaches they just
04:17let the runs continue they want to waste timeouts he used two in that run so i give him credit
04:21for
04:22that but it shouldn't have come to that yep you've highlighted slow start uh slow out of half turnovers
04:29at bad times now cleveland turns the ball over too so ray i'm not trying to let jb off the
04:34hook at all
04:35yeah i mean look we said it i mean there's no shortage of things for people to grab grapple
04:39with and grab onto and invent about today uh how about we had a caller reference uh jenkins and you
04:46said there's two different versions of him yes there's home court danus and there's a road danus
04:51right now or as this texter puts it there's danus and anus
04:58guys any fan or media that suggests durin should get a max has lost any credibility you're not getting
05:03lobs dunks and layups repeatedly against teams in the playoffs also cade 63 turnovers and 11 playoff
05:09games i don't care what else he's bringing to the table that's an absurd number mike and shelby it's
05:13not a good number you are correct but he's still their best for most of these games he's been playing
05:19their best and i think he tried to go downhill to break up that 22-0 run and he just
05:23wasn't getting
05:23any calls and then it snowballed true but he's if you're gonna call this guy a superstar he's got to
05:29come
05:29out and you know tomorrow night and take over you're at home superstars do
05:36yeah and again we're pitching about last night this is not a uh at least for me no not some
05:42referendum shift on the series no i'm gonna be very hesitant to kill off the pistons after what i saw
05:47them do in round one and the fact that they have home court still in round number two correct uh
05:52and
05:52home court's been huge cleveland has not lost at home in the postseason and not won on the road in
05:57the
05:57postseason uh texas blaha was not having it few jabs at the refs last night a couple times he said
06:04the refs are missing a good game and another one where he called them the three blind mice that's
06:10cat in oxford oh we've got that yes he's referring to josh tivin trey maddox and mark davis stony do
06:21you
06:21agree with brendan and fenton who says diehard pistons fan they have their cancun trips
06:26booked no come on really i mean they you know charles and kenny and shackle center you'll send them
06:37there if they lose but no they want to prove that they're a legitimate team get to the eastern
06:44conference finals and you know they think they can beat the new york knicks no they they're not
06:49looking towards cancun if anything they might have been looking too far ahead to the next round
06:55if anything more than worrying about their vacations no no hypocritical to call out donovan
07:01mitchell for complaining about officiating in detroit and then turn around and do it yourselves
07:06okay i want to unpack that on two fronts one that's just the game i hate it if they had
07:12to
07:12politic then we have to do it too right but beyond that when they were complaining about calls in game
07:18one they were a jump shooting team the pistons play in the paint that explains some of it
07:23what did donovan mitchell have to say says i guess i'm gonna have to flop right well does kate have
07:28to
07:28flop in game five maybe yes i mean you can't be above it you can't put your hoity-toity nose
07:34up in the
07:34air you mean if this is how the refs are gonna play it you gotta you gotta sell it yes
07:38you gotta sell it
07:39the media sell it on the court fine look they did that's the officiating was horrible but it is not
07:45the main reason they lost the game jb is such a loser blaming the refs when your team gave up
07:52a big
07:52run out of the locker room that's on you dude not on the refs i tend to agree but look
07:59if you don't
08:00think the referee is doing a good job you should say it i'd rather him do that than some people
08:05have
08:05suggested oh take a technical foul you make it harder in game yeah i'd rather you try to do it
08:12at the podium to steer calls moving forward you don't need to give them any free points no kate
08:17was flirting with one i thought he was going to get teed up at some point in there was that
08:21the eight
08:21second one yeah let's get where streus looked like he had a bear hug on him yes lots of during
08:30text
08:30we'll read more of those go to the phones brad waterford brad good morning hey good morning
08:35gentlemen where's your head at this morning brad what's that oh my head's that it's funny because
08:43i'm going to talk about you said ain't it i'm going to talk my head's okay they'll be fine but
08:48i
08:48do want to give stoney a funny story and jim you'll like this you know who he is but this
08:52was a little
08:52before your time all right i went to indiana university and i was able to take coach nice
08:57class if you're an athlete you're able to get in it and he was telling the story in 87 about
09:01dwayne
09:02jared and uh it's about how jared played this absolutely horrible game against illinois he didn't
09:07start in the next game so after the game they asked him he said you know the greatest motivator
09:11in this world is your ass on the bench ass beats bench bench holds ass ass sends a message to
09:18the
09:18book to the brain the brain sends that message to the body and suddenly the body starts playing better
09:23that's a hell of a powerful chain reaction i wish somebody would just i just tell
09:30during that story gentlemen he has played 11 straight games so i don't want to hear this jb
09:35bickerstaff stuff about well you know you got to give the chances it's been a couple games bs man it's
09:4111 games yep it's not even a small sample size it's a huge sample size if he doesn't like it
09:46then you
09:47know what bye he ain't getting 240 million you want to win this series get his ass on the bench
09:54when he's playing like that yes you start him and then if he doesn't you know do anything then you
10:00sit him there's no doubt about it exactly guys you can let him run for about a quarter there's your
10:08sample size again if he's doing the same old bs i mean are we just worried about hurting the big
10:14fellas feelings yeah i'm way past that point to at least they'll take sports yeah these two will
10:20take points away which is just like giving the points you know this has just gotten ridiculous
10:26yeah we gotta not worried about hurting guys feelings or or or losing a guy's confidence i'm
10:33worried about losing games you get two games you have to win you have to win two of the next
10:38three
10:39games nothing else matters no i i don't understand why anybody especially jb bickerstaff was coaching
10:48this team wants duran on the floor so bad i mean i know what he did in the regular season
10:55they're
10:55seduced by it and and maybe it's it's just hard to fathom because this is one of the all-time
11:00falls
11:00from grace this guy was 20 and 10 he was an all-star he may be third team all nba
11:06for his regular season
11:07people wanted him for most improved player that guy is borderline unplayable certainly shouldn't be
11:15closing games in the nba playoffs he's cost himself it feels like 100 100 million dollars in the span of
11:22two three weeks here but it's happening and you have to adjust you can't go but i want him to
11:29be the
11:29regular season during we all do yeah he's not that guy he hasn't been that guy so stoney i know
11:35what
11:35you're saying hey you could you could still start him but if it's going to be like that right it's
11:40not like you don't have other options you get them out there's no doubt about it i see we're pressed
11:45for
11:45time we'll talk more uh pistons next get your phone calls it's 97 another game got leaked oh not a
11:51lying
11:52game oh all right we'll do it next to 97 one
11:55you
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