00:01let's just get right to the phones take as many phone calls as we can to wrap the show
00:05also try to shift gears from game four and whether you're nervous or your confidence
00:10has been shaken let's get to steven in lincoln park steven good morning good morning first time
00:16long time what's going on hey uh we're just giving you guys a ring and i was at the game
00:23last night i'm from lincoln park we drove out we drove up there after work and that third quarter
00:27was miserable i can only imagine being in the building for it how were ticket prices uh how
00:34were the ticket prices for you guys not bad there were only 60 to 70 bucks okay what we paid
00:39good
00:40compared to compared to what it's going to be for the next few days and if we make it through
00:44the
00:44series praying but it was amazing it was definitely a game that i i'm going to remember unfortunately we
00:51we lost but yeah that that third quarter was we needed we need some work what do you think's the
01:00biggest reason they lost that game that 23 and 0 run okay we need to get to the line there
01:06was there's
01:07there's no need we there's no excuse we we're not going to win the series if we can't do that
01:13yeah
01:16how about that spur of the moment you go down there and that's what you're treated to
01:21it was a tough watch that third quarter that's for damn sure yelling at the tv going seriously
01:26they're going to make every shot we can't run anything offensively we can't get any good looks
01:31can't get any shot to fall can't get to the free throw line it was it felt like a little
01:36bit of being
01:37on the other side of that magic game six yes now theirs was extended it went damn near the whole
01:43second half or you know quarter plus by the way uh checking on stub up the cheapest to get into
01:51little caesars arena tomorrow night section 207 row 10 that's a high upper bowl behind the basket
02:00the corner 98 including fees damn all right so if you want anything nicer you're spending triple digits yeah
02:11absolutely but you know they could drop by game time which they usually do yeah but i when we start
02:16getting into the the final couple games of a series i think those prices tend to creep up
02:22i get it alden you're next you're on 97 one hey good morning thank you guys for taking the call
02:28of course i uh i i agree with with most of what you guys have been saying um to me
02:35though that this is
02:36not about the officiating or the free throws this is this is about the the pistons in in five road
02:43playoff games outside of a second half in game six where the magic shot a historically low field
02:49goal percentage this team hasn't been tough on the road they haven't played well on the road in any
02:54game of this series and it's kind of been the same story you know in every road playoff game where
03:00they uh you know they go on a little run they get up four points the other team takes a
03:05timeout and
03:05then they come out flat they come out of the the half flat um obviously we can talk about about
03:11uh
03:11jaylen duran but three of of detroit starting five didn't crack double digits um and and kade cunningham
03:20as much as i love him and he is a star he's made some really big mistakes in these games
03:24throwing the
03:25ball off the backboard on an inbounds pass in game three in a critical time not getting the ball across
03:30half court because he's too slow bringing it up and then gets trapped i mean they just have not
03:35played tough on the road and for a team that prides themselves as a bunch of dogs that they haven't
03:41shown it on the road in these playoffs they're playing like dog dogs not d-a-w-g dogs you
03:48know
03:48what i mean right right and look you're right and the road and the perfect example is danis jenkins
03:55yep two points last night yeah and he's the one he's got to help but when he's in there when
04:00kade's
04:01in there he's got to maybe bring the ball up to help kade get you know spend less time worrying
04:07about
04:07getting trapped and stuff and the final point i'll make is is in games three and four they turn the
04:13ball over 11 more times than they get did in games one and two and and the opposing crowd and
04:18the you know
04:19that atmosphere you can't turn the ball over 11 more times it's just it's they just haven't played
04:25they haven't played up to their potential and they haven't played like they they want they want it
04:30more than cleveland i guess i don't know about that but his note going all the way back to the
04:37first
04:37round about how they've played on the road yes something to it oh absolutely speaking of these
04:42turnovers i get really frustrated seeing i know robinson had one example of this in the game last night was
04:49these extra passes in the lane in traffic just go up for a layup and try to get fouled maybe
04:57yes you're absolutely right greg absolutely
05:02billy in commerce good morning you're on 97.1 hey fellas um i just want to say the biggest reasons
05:09here i think for the loss one kade obviously being the scorer i was getting the most turnovers but some
05:15of the passes from him i think are really bad you know he's got an open shot in the paint
05:19and he
05:20tries to find a star under the rim turnover uh forget who it was to you know on the wing
05:25should
05:25have been a bounce pass outside he throws it at his chest and another turnover you know just things like
05:29that i think is really sloppy coming from him um another one is just all the open threes that they
05:35were given the calves you know they crash so hard in the paint and overload it you know you got
05:40like
05:40four white jerseys in there and then you're leaving struce or merrill or harden or mitchell
05:47you know wide open and you know i i thought the same thing but when you look at the totality
05:54of
05:54the three-point shooting by cleveland yesterday yesterday in particular it really wasn't too
06:00impressive they were 14 of 41 34 it's not bad but yes and then most of them were uncontested a
06:09lot
06:09of them were uncontested but even they're really good free of the three-point shooters you know
06:13struce one for six merrill two for seven now wade didn't even attempt a three mobley one for four
06:22too many guys who if you leave them open they're gonna hit shots you know and that was just huge
06:27and i think that coming out of the half that was the biggest adjustment i felt like they had to
06:31make
06:32was kick out on those threes a bit better just cover them better and you know obviously you come out
06:37of the half and play the way you did i feel like that was kind of unexcusable you know from
06:41jb i
06:42think he's got to make that adjustment at halftime and then also speaking to jb just you know keeping
06:47jalen baron in the game for so long he's kind of reinforcing that narrative around him of not being
06:54maybe the guy to get it on the playoffs with some of these decisions he's been making thanks billy
07:00stoney as we sit here to two you see uh how close this series has been both teams are shooting
07:05an
07:05identical 47 from the field right the points pistons have scored 107 points per game cleveland
07:12has scored 106 points per game it's a close it's been an entirely close series pistons are getting
07:19a few more boards cleveland shooting more free throws as we sit here today are you feeling nervous
07:27are you feeling concerned concerns a better word because eventually you would think that one of
07:34these teams is going to lose a home game hopefully that doesn't happen because the pistons are the
07:39ones have two home games to cleveland's one but yeah i'm concerned because these the series is tight
07:45either team can win so yes i'm concerned and i'll be nervous sitting there tomorrow no doubt
07:52nervousness when you put yourself in this position after being up 2-0 at the same time
07:59seeing what they did in the first round coming back down 3-1 my takeaway was this is a hard
08:03team
08:04to kill and you're gonna have to come into detroit and kill this team yeah but who is cleveland's
08:10uh comparable to franz wagner who won't be playing the last two games i hear you
08:17pistons have beaten cleveland twice they didn't beat orlando twice with wagner right
08:27it's not like you're gonna be braggadocious after losing back-to-back no at the same time
08:32that the pistons are our slight favorites i think they should still be slight favorites i think they're
08:38still in control of this series i mean look it still comes down to if they win game five at
08:45home
08:46i mean you put all the pressure on cleveland and you still got game seven in your back pocket
08:51so for as bad as this has been you take care of business in game five and all is
08:55all is forgiven uh jennifer hammond of fox 2 is was in cleveland and she said uh she's driving in
09:01everyone in cleveland is convinced parentheses nervous that the calves won't win
09:06according to uh their radio this morning yeah i'll be curious like they haven't won a road game
09:12do they kind of feel i don't put yourself in the calves fan shoes right now yeah what would you
09:17say
09:19i'd be more concerned if i was a calves fan i would too because they have two games on the
09:24road
09:24and i would be here's the other thing if i'm a calves fan we did what we needed to do
09:29to even this
09:29thing up but we got to go to detroit and is jb going to get the whistles that kenny atkinson
09:35stumped
09:36for earlier in the series because you told me hey free throws are gonna shift now going home to
09:40detroit i wouldn't feel very good if i was a calves fan right anyway we can we can touch base
09:46with
09:47pistons fans as we wrap up it's 97 one
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