00:15all right let's get to work
00:18all right good talk i'll see everybody later i i don't know i don't know what you want me to
00:22say
00:22yeah i mean whatever waste of three hours last night i it's it's just difficult to watch i mean
00:29you're you're out there playing the bad version of the pistons you're playing three on five
00:34offensively and the good version you overcome it you find ways around it i i don't know and we
00:40talked yesterday all right you want to play paul read more who you're taking minutes from we talked
00:45about taking minutes from durin i mean i'm just at defcon one with durin where i i can't really name
00:52anything he does this is again and and the problem rico you're going to get into i told you
00:59so crap and i really don't want to do it but like when everybody was busy massaging their gherkin
01:03about the regular season and i'm like well you're dopes the regular season is fake this is the nba
01:09playoffs are totally different now this guy's out here he looks like yinka dare so i i really don't
01:15know what to do other than okay you played 26 minutes last night i guess we move you to 20
01:21you want paul reed from 14 minutes to 20 that's fine i don't i don't know what else to say
01:29it's 11
01:29games and in 10 of them he's been dog water so i you know we could start there yeah we
01:36can i because
01:37the durin conversation is the beginning middle and end the best version of this team features
01:42jaylen durin being a guy you want to pay money to play basketball right now i that that report that's
01:49out there or them extending him at 217 million dollars potentially see you can enjoy that mike
01:55i'm wondering if we are watching the evolution of he's going to get his own playoff reputation i
02:01mean we talk about james harden in game sevens you know the paul georges the chris paul's of the world
02:07the deandre adens they you know the people who just can't close in the playoffs and i'm wondering
02:14are we about to introduce a new player into this club to be coached by doc rivers but it's tough
02:19because again while he is 22 he's also in his fourth year in the league i didn't make the cba
02:25they have a decision to make i can't change it i'm not i'm not paying for this no i'm just
02:31not doing
02:32it and again whatever you do in the regular season it doesn't matter like everyone now is trying
02:38everyone will guard everyone will have a specific game plan over the course of a two-week period
02:43it's there is no getaway day there is no load management it's just different and you're seeing
02:49a guy who has no confidence around the rim he's a total disaster he had another one of those along
02:55came poly jumpers last night and he's not rebounding look here's a stat right if you take the last
03:01two games 56 minutes played for jayland duran a grand total of six rebounds i mean if jayland duran
03:08were out here blocking shots rebounding screening and his offense was lagging we could find real value
03:15there rico he's not even he's not rebounding the ball he's he's just lost and it's more than just
03:21cade dotting him off the ding-a-ling on a on a on a dive down to the cup he's
03:26he's awful you know
03:29and paul reed comes in the game as energizer bunny okay fine i don't know what you think you're doing
03:34with a guy who weighs 210 pounds but go ahead you want to play him a bunch play him but
03:38it might
03:38it's better than what whatever duran's given you right when he came in the game paul reed came in
03:43with a purpose and he made himself known on the court he he was everywhere and it's like you you
03:49take
03:49away that and you take away caris jordan and this team gets blown out yesterday that's that's more
03:55clown ball by this team like that's when when people wonder why i can't wrap my arms around
03:59him it's like yeah because i got to look at caris lavert dropping 24 go to l that's ridiculous you
04:06know what that is that's cartoon land like no i'm here to watch the stars and i'm here to watch
04:11your
04:11best players and the problem is look people are clamoring for b-ball paul well then why don't you
04:16just say the other part of it then there's no way you can max out duran just say it yeah
04:22like you
04:23can't call in and ask for b-ball paul and then in the same breath pay jayland duran there's not
04:29a
04:29legit max contract player in the league losing minutes to paul effing reed so if you are losing
04:36minutes to paul reed you are not a max player the other part of it like a sore thompson this
04:44is this
04:44is the other side i mean he played his way to the bench and this is where i think bicker
04:49staff is being
04:50a hypocrite because bicker staff is benching a sore for poor play yeah but then he's he's out here
04:57worshiping duran and continuing to go back to him no yeah you can't do it right now well i think
05:04we
05:04found the answer to your question you said who finds somebody who loves uh somebody like the
05:11cleveland coach and and james harden believe in someone yeah half as much as atkinson believes in
05:16in the beard we figured that out yeah it's jb and well it does make you wonder if there's something
05:22else going on it does it makes you wonder if they're already at the one yard line for an extension
05:27and they can't body bag the player because they know in a week or two they're gonna have to announce
05:32to the world a ridiculous extension i mean am i hypothesizing you betcha no about mike i think you're
05:40spot on because asar gets benched in the game and he just disappears and he's not coming back in the
05:46game so much so i'm like did he get hurt did i miss something like where is he and his
05:52play was awful
05:53and he didn't deserve to be in the game but duran well we're gonna figure it out and that's my
05:59guy and
06:00i'm gonna stick with him why what you just said actually makes a ton of sense i wish i'd have
06:06thought
06:06about it first it's a brilliant idea well good i'm glad i'm glad i hit my apex seven minutes into
06:11the show thank you it's maybe that's why that they know this is close and we're gonna have to
06:17resign him and you can't bench him and then turn around and say yeah but we're gonna forget about
06:22this series especially if they don't win this series that's gonna be a tough build to swap and
06:27again i'm not gonna alter my perspective on the series until or unless cleveland comes here and wins a
06:32game they're winless on the road in the playoffs and i do think they have a softness to them
06:38um i'm not saying it's impossible we talked at the start of the series i didn't have a big opinion
06:42i mean i thought the pistons would be okay based on the home court but it's two two but game
06:48five
06:48whoever wins it wins the series if cleveland comes up here and wins you're not coming back here for
06:53game seven and if you win and you do come back for a game seven they're not coming up here
06:58and
06:58win it so i mean i can stick with it but look it's just it there are nights with this
07:04team
07:04it's torturous and last night was one of them i mean a 24-0 run to start the third yeah
07:09sorry man
07:10the calf shot one free throw in that stretch you want to blame the officials for your team being
07:14ass go for it but you got basically a hundred rotational minutes of nothing danis jenkins duncan
07:21robinson asura thompson jalen duran just be better yeah and you didn't say anything when you
07:27shot a zillion free throws in game one i don't want to hear it now i understand why jb did
07:32what
07:32he did it's politicking just like i understood what what spider did but i don't want to hear it
07:38from you like i was so disappointed in cookies this morning how are you seriously going to blame the
07:43officials for that last night really well he doesn't blame the officials often so it should mean
07:47more no it doesn't what the thing that i found ironic is when uh spider mitchell came out and said
07:53well maybe i need to flop and it was all he he's and ha ha's oh look at what cleveland
07:58has to do
07:58ha ha cleveland can't do anything and now well yeah the referees screwed us the referees didn't go out
08:05there and score 22 straight points 24 if you add the first the last 12 seconds of the first half
08:11the referees didn't do that the referees didn't pout because kate didn't get the eight he got the
08:17eight second call and he just pouted for the rest of the game like he that moment took him out
08:22and
08:22he i don't know what happened to him but he really wanted that call and he just kind of
08:28sulked like this team the stars didn't show up i don't even blame tobias harris because i didn't
08:34think it was he was going to keep scoring 20 points a game but he went out there he scored
08:38in the first
08:38half yeah and then went 0 for 8 in the second half you know the refs didn't do that he
08:42went 0 for 8
08:43right i just look i'm not mad i'm just disappointed i mean was it a possibility to go
08:48to cleveland and lose bolt sure cleveland's undefeated at home but they're also winless on
08:52the road so the durin conversation is far more interesting and i'm not going to do to you guys
08:58what other shows do we're not going to bring up the con no we are bringing up the contract
09:01because we're adults and there's a couple hundred million dollars on the line and i'm sorry but he
09:06doesn't deserve it and i want jb bickerstaff to have the same energy and same accountability for
09:11jayland durin that he has for a sword thompson if one player is bad enough to play their way out
09:17of
09:17the lineup then why isn't this because i have bad news for you outside of karis lavert's memorial
09:22game last night you don't have any other wings who can do what a sword does you do have beef
09:27stew
09:28and paul reid so i i just enough stop with jayland durin he's not worse playing right now the way
09:35he's
09:35playing north of 20 minutes he's not i'm not telling you to put him on ice i'm not telling you
09:40to
09:40jettison him like napoleon bonaparte i'm just saying no more and this idea that they claw their
09:47way back or they get close and then you know like in game three durin's closing the game out why
09:53he's just not here right now no so i i you can figure it out and they can do whatever
10:00they want
10:00to do i'm just i'll continue to say it this is where you earn your money the regular season is
10:06is
10:06sizzle this is the stake and if this is the tape you're putting out there in a contract you yeah
10:12how how on earth would i pay you 200 million dollars and you can't you're useless rico he's
10:19not out there protecting the rim no he's not rebounding no okay so what is he giving me and
10:24you're getting outplayed by the third string center on the team that's a tough pill to swallow like
10:30so once again why am i about to pay you 200 million dollars i i can try to just boost
10:37his
10:38minutes and pay him a fraction of what i'm going to pay you the whole point is there's no max
10:43big
10:43that i would take minutes away from in a playoff series for a third string fringe nba player like
10:49paul reed no you can laugh as much as you want about uh cat but he plays no i mean
10:55it's no no but
10:56i'm saying but you could say oh he's soft yeah but you ain't taking right but you're not taking his
11:00his minutes away so you can play pete zapala like it's just it's an absurd notion and whether it's
11:07hosts or whether it's callers or whether it's media just say it like just say it if you're doing the
11:16paul reed thing do the we can't pay durin thing they're related the only reason you're clamoring for
11:25this guy is he is grossly out playing durin it's not close and that's not a compliment
11:33so look i'm not gonna freak out about the series but the durin thing i'm just i i think jb
11:40is being
11:40hypocritical very you know you're you're gonna sit there and put a sewer on ice but you won't do it
11:46to durin so what do you got some kind of joe smith secret contract already signed kenny you'll have
11:52to google that one i know joe smith was before your time but i don't understand the protected
11:56class there's one guy on this team that i don't care how poorly he plays i'm playing him we're
12:01riding him he's our superstar it's kate cunningham yeah kate has earned that right but other than that
12:06you're sitting there when a novice non-basketball person sits there says well why doesn't this guy
12:11play more and you're talking about b-ball paul it's like that's a great question because he came out
12:17there and was instant energy they were scoring kind of felt like you know what are the pistons
12:23gonna pull this thing off and then the you know the calves shut the door they brought their first
12:29team back in the game but like all of a sudden it's like yeah i don't understand let's look that's
12:35the
12:35other problem is like and i know we're up against it but like jb has a hard and fast rule
12:39that if they're
12:40ahead they'll play stewart if they're behind they'll play paul reid what are we talking about
12:44just play who's producing yeah you can't keep doing this with durin and you're sending a terrible
12:51message that there's accountability for a sore but not for durin so you guys can bring up whatever
12:57you like 248-539-9797 we'll talk pistons we'll go through all of it 97.1
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