00:03so here's one note that i had in my notes uh following the game
00:10the series is now tied at two but get a thank you thank you he wrote that down
00:16he stopped and wrote that down last night i also paused for for a reason the series is tied at
00:22two
00:22two but it feels like they just got eliminated that's how he felt immediately after the game
00:29i felt like i'm like did they just lose no the series is just tied snap out of it they
00:34come back
00:34to lca tomorrow night where they played pretty well and cleveland has you know they've won every
00:43game at home they don't play that well on the road so is this just going to be one of
00:47these series
00:48where home field home court advantage matters and there you go it'll take seven games it's going to
00:54be an uncomfortable roller coaster ride but in the end who cares if you just advance all right i mean
00:59the series is not over let's let's be clear about that but you know we talked about it in the
01:04orlando series there are times where your championship dna better rise to the top
01:08this team has been in pressure situations before they've been in worse situations before in the
01:13playoffs they were down 3-1 last round and they were down 3-1 going on the road now they're
01:19down
01:193-1 coming home now they better not think oh we're coming home everything's going to be fine
01:24but last series it brought out their best this is a better opponent than last series
01:30and the pistons have you know they won five straight in the playoffs and look great doing it
01:35so there's a version of the pistons that can close out cleveland for sure but cleveland got the better of
01:41them it the thing is losing the toss-up game three i just hope we don't go back and rue
01:48the day and i
01:50had a sneaking suspicion in my mind and talked about it yesterday how this is going to be a better
01:54punch from cleveland in game four and it was and i you know give donovan mitchell a ton of credit
01:59i'm
01:59not going to leg hump him all day in fact we can wrap it up right now if we want
02:02he was spectacular
02:03he was spectacular in the second half but the pistons got to make his life more difficult
02:10two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven all right what bothered you most last night
02:14and what do you need to see in game five let's get to your phone calls jake is on 97
02:18one hi jake
02:20hey what's going on hey hi you know no one's gonna say it's the official's fault because that's you
02:27know it's unacceptable to say that and the pistons play but we don't know that but i mean this a
02:33lot
02:33of the game is formed by how the officials call the game you know when donovan mitchell every single
02:39time he goes near the basket gets a foul it becomes impossible to guard him and yeah easy to get
02:4340 points
02:43when everyone's terrified to stick their hands up near you to block your shots and k cunningham
02:49every time he goes he's not getting a single call you so every single time he gets hounded
02:52and you see he turns to the official and just what's going on 34 to 12 that's such a ridiculous
02:58free throw disparity for a team that dominates the paint it was so obviously garbage so did it cause
03:03the game did the pistons play good no but how you don't know how the game would have looked had
03:07they
03:07gotten a few other calls and donovan mitchell wouldn't have gotten every single call in the world
03:11and number two over here another thing that people number two the craziest thing is
03:15when donovan mitchell whined after game one that oh we didn't get more free throws and that was after
03:19the the cleveland took a million threes and floaters you know it was just like oh donovan mitchell's no
03:25one you know no one even pay attention but the entire series shifted from that this league is garbage
03:30this is just so pathetic it was and you say you didn't see it last night i mean that was
03:34the most
03:34eye-popping free throw disparity games i've ever seen every time they drove the lane whistle whistle whistle whistle
03:39it was just it was it was impossible to watch you know and that's part of part of part of
03:45james
03:45part of the problem with this league is and i can't stand it but jb did the requisite pitch about
03:50the refs point out that cleveland complained about the refs and everything changed how unacceptable it
03:56was you have to do it i can't stand manipulation of officiating which you know my chump was the
04:03oklahoma city thunder for flopping like they do like the orchestrated synchronized team flopping that
04:09they do is just disgusting to me but this goes back years i've been right to the conference fund
04:13yeah and i've been pitching about trey young years ago i mean i i can't manipulating of officiating is
04:20such a important part of this game and jb did what he had to do after the game you know
04:25the pistons have
04:27one of the more ethical teams in the nba and that they don't do a lot of flopping they don't
04:31and
04:32kang suggested it when the pistons are down 3-1 that they needed to do it in the orlando series
04:37and
04:37i'm like god i hope you're not right i hope you're not right because that's an awful thing to be
04:43required to do to have success in this league flop and bitch about officiating now the pistons have
04:49one guy who turns the refs every time and that's duncan robinson he turns to the refs every single
04:54time the problem is he's got the least amount of cachet to be able to turn to the refs every
04:58single
04:58time so they're like okay whatever duncan and i don't want the pistons to flop or anything like that
05:02and i don't want that that's the extreme okay but they do need to have to work the referees that's
05:07just part of sports i don't even care what sport you're involved in football hockey basketball baseball
05:12you have to work the officials and refs at some point to let them see your side of it the
05:17first
05:18quarter the fact that the calves did not get called for one foul is absolutely insane you're telling me
05:24they didn't grab or tug or do anything or hit someone on the arm one time in the entire first
05:30quarter pretty remarkable that's unbelievable i would be on the verge of getting fined if i were
05:35jb bickerson have to point that out you know so and the pistons aren't some kind of three-point
05:40shooting team they're like the least three-point shooting team they do shoot inside the arc they
05:44do get in the paint and they got no calls and don't don't you know don't mistake what i'm trying
05:50to say the pistons deserve to lose that game last night they played terribly jalen duran was terrible
05:54assar thompson was terrible but the riffs the refs were and officials were terrible too i think well
06:00something doug i don't know if you have the the full-on each quarter box score or how many
06:07points did tobias have at halftime was it 14 uh at halftime tobias have 14 points how many points
06:15did kate cunningham have at halftime 12 was it 12 yep how many points did tobias have after three
06:21quarters uh in the third quarter he did not score how about kate cunningham he did not score so your
06:29top
06:29two scorers both go scoreless in the third quarter which is something i think went kind of unnoticed
06:35too while while cleveland's everybody's talking about how great cleveland was and they were
06:38with that run that they had but it's coincides with your top two players not showing up at all
06:46you can't win those games and i mean maybe you can survive if one of those guys go scoreless but
06:51you can't have both guys go scoreless and then tobias only has two points in the entire second half
06:57kate had seven in the in the fourth quarter but i mean those two guys combined for for nothing in
07:03the third and nine points in the fourth quarter it's just it's you can't have that brett and grand
07:07rapids hello brett hey how you guys doing today man um for one one thing that's going to change
07:13automatically is that we'll have different set of wraps and i i know you guys are going to think i'm
07:19nuts but why doesn't jb go to durham and say i'm going to start one of these other big men
07:25and
07:25bring you off the bench just to shake him up and maybe he'll whatever the funk he is in the
07:31end
07:31will be shaken out of him those are hard decisions to make and the reason they're hard decisions to
07:37make is because you spend an entire season establishing an identity of who you are you
07:43experiment a little bit you try different things and and you have a ton of success to the point
07:50where you're the one seed in the east and so you do all these things to establish your identity and
07:55then something goes wrong in the playoffs and you have to decide okay when is the time that we go
08:00with
08:00radical change and it's they don't people you go they should have done it already should have done
08:07already well jb is playing the guy that he thinks is most likely going to have success playing
08:13that role next if you you ask anybody out there that's followed the pistons all season long
08:20about what jalen duran did and what and even the people in the league i think they would tell you
08:26yeah it's still probably duran over reed our eyes are telling us that duran can't get it done and reed
08:31has been an instant spark plug off the bench but that's why these these are difficult decisions you
08:36spent an entire season establishing an identity and then when things start to go wrong when do you
08:41when do you change it when do you decide okay we got to do this completely differently
08:45i because i do agree with you it's tough and i i'm not i'm not saying you don't consider it
08:51but
08:51i hear everything i'm thinking there's something wrong with duran and we thought the same thing last
08:57series and they stuck with duran and they won the series which is all that matters
09:02is are they going to win yeah but i don't think we can win this series with duran getting two
09:08rebounds well and uh and single digit single digit points so the question is do you think if they
09:15keep playing him he's going to give you two rebounds and single digit points he hasn't been he
09:20hasn't i know what he hasn't been i i get it if you look at the first two games of
09:25the series
09:25against cleveland he had 11 points and 12 rebounds in the first game eight points and 10 rebounds in the
09:31second game so both were double digit rebound totals but the points are still half as what
09:35much sure had now the last two games he's had 19 points combined and six rebounds combined so the
09:41rebounds is terrible and and quite frankly last night you did not feel him on the defensive end you
09:47had the way you have earlier in this series i made the point yesterday if i were a cleveland fan
09:51and i
09:52heard that duran was going to get benched or i were cleveland player that likes taking the ball to the
09:55hole and they've got guys that like taking the ball to the basket i'd be thrilled not have to face
10:00duran
10:00when it got there but it's it's a diminishing returns thing if he's not going to be felt on
10:06the defensive end and not going to rebound the basketball and that's what you have to ask
10:10yourself is this who he is now is he suddenly a guy who can't rebound or was that a statistical
10:16anomaly i don't know but it's two games in a row now where he hasn't rebounded in fact he's got
10:20more
10:20turnovers the last two games and he's got rebounds i believe it two games his seven turnovers and six
10:25rebounds from moment one in the first three minutes he dribbled that rocket off his foot into the
10:29stance where it looked like they had to go search for the basketball he kicked it so far out of
10:34bounds he had a shot blocked by mobley and he threw up a running one-hander that was well west
10:39of the
10:39basket like he was it was a terrible start i think amari sankofa today in the free pressing was him
10:44that had the an article about jayland duran specifically and so the reason he's still in
10:49there is because jb he really thinks that jayland duran is a is a foundation piece for this team he's
10:55part
10:55of the core group and they trust him they trust him and they need him to grow and learn from
11:01playoff failures and playoff successes and that's why he's going to stay in there would i start him
11:05yeah i'd start him however if he's going to be unproductive i'm not going to be afraid to say
11:10why don't you come out of the side let's let's put paul reed in now or put in you know
11:14steward or
11:15whatever you have to do to you know to try to get some new life and and keep him as
11:19fresh as possible
11:21248-539-9797 more your phone calls and feedback coming up what bothered you most last night
11:26what do they need to do in game five tomorrow night lca
