00:01it's george blaha you know as he's gotten into his 80s he's gone more into effort mode good for him
00:09we'll play some audio going to the half because uh he did not mince words on what he was seeing
00:14last night we want to hear from you guys good morning pistons they lose game four biggest
00:20reason they lost 248 539 97 97 we got stoney in fresh off a live restore the floor last night
00:28that's right where you guys were venting about this and we're going to do the same thing this
00:33morning yes by the way john neo pointed out you know because all the hate for duran and you know
00:37rightfully so but he said b-ball paul went six for six with a couple rebounds and an assist in
00:44an 11
00:44minute stretch to finish the third and start the fourth but the pistons still lost those minutes
00:49by 11 points this was more way more than a jalen duran issue tonight and it was it was a
00:54sorry it
00:55was a lot of players didn't play very well and the officiating as well which i loathe to bring up
01:01i never play the ref card but i do but i do think it's one of the three biggest reasons
01:06they lost
01:07this game and i'll give you my three why did the pistons lose game four well first and foremost donovan
01:12mitchell was unbelievable he was unconscious he tied an nba record 39 points in the second half of that
01:18game he was hitting step back threes he was going to the hole he was hitting floaters off glass high
01:23off
01:23the glass anything and everything he wanted he was truly special that's number one number two
01:30jb's infatuation with playing duran 30 minutes a night is wild to me and you want to make a comment
01:36that assar didn't play well i'll concede that but why do we got to build duran's confidence
01:41and keep playing him it's i don't understand i i don't i agree with you however we know that
01:49coaches really successful coaches can't treat every single player the same you're right i would
01:54rather die with a sar who can who could defend people than duran who doesn't do anything right
01:58i get it and the third thing to me is is the free throws it is the officiating i found
02:04it to
02:04be egregious and i was egregious and i never do this stoney never as long as i've never the guy
02:10who
02:10says the refs decided the game but when we look at that disparity the piston shot 60 times inside
02:17the arc and shot 12 free throws that's absurd the calves 37 shots inside the arc 34 free throws
02:24mitchell had more than the pistons team and the calves went a quarter without committing a foul
02:29believe it or not in an nba game zero fouls in a quarter i'm so happy vickerstaff politicked after
02:35the game he called it unacceptable and he needs to fight back because they have started litigating this
02:39post game and at the podium the pistons have to fight back because that was egregious it is
02:44unacceptable it is egregious but yes it was not the main reason they lost the basketball game but
02:50it all adds up stoney i know if those aren't fouls those are stops those are transitions those help
02:55the pistons true avoid a a 23-0 run in the third quarter i mean cade's trying to go to
03:01the hole to
03:01get fouls to try to break up their rhythm he's not getting them and they're getting them and it's
03:06snowballs even on the play where he got called for the you know eight second violation streus looked like
03:11he was like hugging them practically this is what blaha had to say going into the half
03:28what is mark davis looking at
03:54good for george good for george and i hate doing officiating radio because it feels like we make
04:00excuses for the team but everybody was watching that last night yeah but it won't get any national
04:05press because everything's gonna be focusing on lebron could have been his last game with the lakers
04:09that's the big story nationally sweet break out your brooms we got a real series going between these
04:14two teams and it's far from over oh it's far definitely i mean you know it's it's amazing how
04:19things switch in a series and we we all know it because we've done it for years at least i
04:22have
04:23you know harden after game two he's washed he's done and he went home and played pretty damn well
04:29and he was the star of the first half yesterday yeah they couldn't stop him yeah what would be
04:35helpful when he got a hand in his face yep yeah took a lot of uncontested shots and he made
04:39those sure
04:40did let's get to the phones let's get to sheldon highland park you're on 97 one hey guys uh i
04:47talked to
04:48the screener and i told him what i was going to say about the pistons but i'm going to change
04:52it up
04:53in a little way like when i watch a pay-per-view of wwe i wonder who's who who they're
05:00going to have
05:01scripted to win and that's how i kind of watch last game i said they got cleveland scripted to win
05:08because shooting 43 pointers and out shooting the team by 22 free throws it was so obvious the first
05:17game they gave us all the free throws and cleveland was complaining about us but we were attacking the
05:23rim we were more physical yeah and it made more sense that we had more free throws the first game
05:28this did not make sense that they had more free throws now i hate being on a bandwagon of i'm
05:35a big
05:36b-ball paul fan but i hate being on that bandwagon but when a guy plays 14 minutes and get
05:4215 points
05:43and he's hitting threes and he's just scoring and he's with the flow of the team it's crazy to me
05:50that you would keep playing during throwing his hands up in the air wondering why every ticky tack
05:56foul is a foul on him he can't even set a pick without fouling he is mentally out of the
06:02game mentally
06:03and the coach is watching him mentally struggle not physically struggle he's mentally struggling
06:09the coach is watching it b-ball paul comes off the bench fresh off the bench scoring like crazy
06:16doing last game this game and it's just it's it's it's starting to get crazy to me
06:23hey sheldon sheldon you know what else i want to ask why is it and he didn't play bad yesterday
06:29in
06:29his limited minutes but why is it when he takes duran out in the first half for whatever reason whether
06:35it's rest or just bad play beef stew's the guy coming in and not b-ball paul can i tell
06:41you
06:41something about beef stew i'm telling you guys to please look at this so when beef stew comes in the
06:47game duran is playing extremely soft when beef stew comes in the game it's like he's taking up for his
06:54little brother he's playing extremely too physical i watched him throw jared allen to the ground he was
07:01out of the game and he didn't even return the coaching staff is mad with a star because he's
07:07not being aggressive enough on the offensive end they're mad with beef stew because he's playing
07:12too aggressive and he acts like he's a mental case but they don't get mad at duran for playing like
07:20a
07:20mental case and that's what's bothering me i don't know why duran has is held to a different standard
07:25than the rest of the team i know exactly i think it's the contract i swear i think it's the
07:30contract
07:30why no why because they're about to give him 250 million dollars and they're trying to make him
07:36play up to what they're about to give him which is crazy no he the problem is he's not playing
07:43to what
07:44they want to give him so you let do you pay him do you jerry golf him oops i didn't
07:49mean to say that
07:50do you pay him no you don't give him a max that's for damn sure can he pay jerry golf
07:56can he pay us to
07:58be on the team like it's like youth sports like he has to pay like for his jersey and for
08:04team travel
08:06i mean the idea of a max is so far out the window it's laughable yeah i mean look sheldon's
08:11correct
08:11i believe it's something mental either that or he's playing hurt but i don't see it i don't see him
08:17like
08:17limping or anything like that but you agree that they are treating him differently yes he gets the
08:22benefit of the doubt he gets to play closeout minutes it doesn't matter how much he struggles other
08:26people will be relegated to the bench right but not durin i think it's more for defensive purposes
08:33because as much as what defense well it's it's been better than b-ball paul's to a certain extent i
08:38mean i disagree yeah i don't know that he's doing two rebounds he played 30 minutes he had two rebounds
08:45i understand that but i thought you'd double the turnovers his rebounds and that guy is we can't
08:49pull him we got to build this guy about rebounds i'm talking about defense is it look he's not a
08:53great
08:53defender don't get me wrong but b-ball paul got manhandled sometimes when he plays defensively
09:01but you got to pick your poison
09:02you
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