00:00I have had to distract myself all day today because the nerves for tonight are on a different
00:05level. And it's funny because you can lose this game and go to a game seven. That's not where my
00:11headspace is. So I went looking at hot tubs today. I've gone on three walks today. I fed the fishies
00:16today. That's not a euphemism. I've done everything I could to get out and to get my, just to get
00:23out
00:23of my way because this game already, what, five hours out, six hours, I am just, I'm beside myself
00:29with anxiety. Yeah. I'm a glass case of emotion right now. And, uh, I don't know. I didn't think
00:33I'd get the, I really didn't think after the game five, when I'd be this way, I don't know why
00:37I
00:37just, I thought that. And I think most people, I know you're not, but most people are playing with
00:41the assumption that if you won game five, game six was all, it was right there for you. It's just,
00:47we've just seen how this goes too many times. I think I want it. I think that's the thing. I
00:51now
00:51want it. I am kind of addicted to the up and down nature of playoff basketball. Yeah. That's a drug
00:56and I've a hundred percent hooked myself up to it. And we've gotten to the point where the
01:00Pistons have earned just enough of my respect that I do want to beat them in as quick as possible
01:06as time. You know what I mean? Like previously, a lot of the series has been, I want you to
01:10get
01:10done with this so we can get to the Eastern conference finals quickly and healthily. Right.
01:14And then, because I want to see that you can do this now. I'm like, I'm not going to give
01:17this
01:18team a chance because if you do, they can't snipe you in game seven here. I got a little bit
01:22of,
01:23it's not just paranoia that the Cavs aren't going to show up. It's a little bit of a little bit
01:28of
01:28healthy respect that I don't think the Pistons are just going to lie down. I don't have respect for
01:32the Pistons. I just, but I just don't know how else to see it. And so like the, the, the
01:37hard part
01:37about this is you heard Atkinson in that open and Atkinson's like, he calls this one a must win.
01:41Like in that clip, he's like, this is a must win. I've, I've done too many game sixes where you
01:45lose
01:45and you have to go to game seven. Like this is the game game six at home. And by the
01:49way, this should be,
01:50I would imagine a Donovan Mitchell performance for the ages. And so like the way that Cunningham
01:55played in game five, the way that Donovan played in the second half of game four, that's got to
01:58happen here in game six and the series make bond temps. That Muppet look like an absolute idiot
02:04for saying Pistons in five and let's close this thing out. I do think it's funny that Kenny Atkinson's
02:08like, you know, I've been in this situation before. It's like, Kenny, we were with you. It was,
02:11it was one series ago. It was, it was 12 days ago. What are you talking about? I've been in
02:16this
02:16scenario before. Like the other Cavaliers haven't. I probably referenced like a warrior
02:20series that maybe he was thinking of. No, bleep that. You've literally been in this with
02:24us. It was a week ago. Like you okay? Is the stomach virus still getting it now? I, I think
02:31we can come together because, uh, I think Lima has done us a mitzvah. I think he has a what
02:37now a mitzvah. Oh, a mitzvah. I think you said a sub mitzvah. I was, I didn't know what
02:41that was. Sub mitzvah. That's something different. You got to pay extra for that one, Johnny boy.
02:45Hello, sports fan. But, uh, no. So, so, uh, Lima had, uh, with the, with the last two
02:50minute report, it apparently talked about James Harden and about how Detroit fans were
02:55maybe cowards for being too, uh, trying to get that foul on a Sark Thompson at the end
03:00of the game. And it went on this whole rant. Well, John Jansen heard that this morning
03:05of 97 won the ticket. The other half, we like, uh, Jim Costa. I don't really know John, but,
03:10uh, but, but John went on a little diatribe once he heard what Anthony had to say. Total
03:15morons. And here, here's the thing. They've got it all wrong. It's not that it was a ticky
03:21tack foul or we don't like physical play. No, we would just like it to be called equal
03:27both ways. If you're going to make it a physical game, then let it be physical both ways. You
03:36have one of the all time foul baiters in James Harden, where he takes a shot with no
03:42one around them. And it's like every other jump shot you would see anybody else throughout
03:46the history of basketball shoot. And then when somebody is near him, he jumps, he kicks
03:53his legs. He tries to land inside the three point line. He flails. And all of a sudden
03:59you get free free throws. No, we just want it called equal. So stop being morons in the city
04:05of Cleveland, which we expect them to be. That's a 100% on par for anybody from the state
04:11of Ohio, but especially that city, the mistake on the lake. Oh, that's the nickname. Oh no.
04:17Oh, John, by the way, you get a bowling degree from Michigan. That doesn't make you Einstein,
04:23John Jansen. Why, why is he describing James Harden again? Like from yesterday, I was like,
04:27does people just not watch him for 17 years? Am I the only person that watched him play basketball
04:30for 17 years? We have 17 years of James Harden doing that play. And he had to, he had to
04:35do
04:35that description of it as if, as if the audience had never seen James Harden play basketball.
04:39It's an IQ test. Don't come near the landing zone and you're not going to get it called.
04:44They honestly, at this point, if you, if you, if you get baited into a foul by James Harden,
04:50you're stupid. That's as simple as that. And by the way, it is a cheap ass play to land,
04:56to, to get in the landing zone of the player, which the Pistons have done. So I just think it's
05:02rich.
05:02I think it is cry baby city. And I think it's, I think it's telling that John Jansen in his
05:07heart
05:08of hearts, he knows that the Detroit Pistons cannot hang with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
05:13Yeah. I think, I think, I think so, but he can't face it. This is a man's man. This is
05:17a football
05:17player, right? No matter what town you put John Jansen in, that's a man's man. Except I guess when
05:23it comes to basketball, when he just wants little old soft fouls to be called and all fouls to be
05:28called,
05:28as long as they're called against the team that the Pistons are playing.
05:31Yeah. So obviously we've done a lot of listening to Detroit sports talk radio. I like the afternoon
05:34show with Valenny and Rico. I listened to that one, even like when they're not playing the
05:37Pistons Cavs, Valenny yesterday was basically the, the idea that he was throwing out there was
05:41get it in your heads, Pistons fans. The NBA just doesn't like you. And I was like, the NBA is,
05:45is they're going out of their way to show you that they don't like you. You're not going to get
05:48the
05:48calls. You just have to live with the idea that you're not going to get the calls. I don't think
05:52it's
05:52that. I don't think the NBA has just isolated out the Pistons and been like, we don't want to see
05:57you have success. I really don't think that's what that is. I just think the way that they
06:01play basketball isn't conducive to getting a lot of foul calls. Yeah. I mean, listen,
06:05we handled this like men here in Cleveland after Donovan wasn't getting calls in the first two
06:10games. And even when Donovan complained, what was my reaction? My reaction is stop trying to,
06:15to lift a bunch of floaters in the air and attack the basket. Yeah. And like, even like,
06:20if we think about it, like Cunningham's game, so much of that is the mid range. Yes.
06:23And so much of that is set up to basically, I, I, I, I can't help you. You're not going
06:28to get the foul call if you don't ever attack. And if you just try to make these mid range
06:31jumpers a reality, and by the way, shooting over guys doesn't get you foul calls. The thing
06:35that the Pistons, the radio guys at the ticket said after Donovan complained was, well, you
06:41need to go to the cup with more authority. Okay. Pot, meat, kettle. Like that's, that's where
06:47you are with the Detroit. And by the way, the Pistons haven't earned those calls. It is a
06:51superstar league. Cade is a superstar. He has earned my respect in the series. That
06:55is a great player. A little flawed, but a great player. Okay. You still have to go to
07:01the cup as often as possible to get those calls. And if you don't do it, you're not
07:04going to get it. There's a reason why I've, I've said for a million years, it feels like
07:07in the SGA conversation, it's like, this is a skill. Harden possesses the skill. SGA
07:11possesses the skill. There's all sorts of players in the NBA that possess the skill of drawing
07:15fouls. There's a reality to that. And so when the Pistons look at it and their fans are
07:19looking at the same past three games, we have gone to the free throw line. A hundred to 54
07:25has been the number in the past three. Cavs have gone a hundred times. Pistons have gone
07:2854 times. Yeah. I'd probably be a little pissed about that too. If I was a Pistons fan being
07:33like, well, we can't get, we just barely get a little over half the amount of calls that
07:36they get. Okay. Well, this is part of the game play into the game. Yeah. Let me ask you
07:40where, how many of those calls would have impacted, was it 17? I'm being a little facetious
07:45here. A little hyperbolic. How many, uh, a shot clock violations do they have in game
07:50four yesterday or in game five, five, they have four. Yeah. Okay. I guess those were
07:53all fouls too. Like the Pistons play an ugly brand of offensive basketball, biggest possession
07:58in the, in the end of regulation, they blew one of the biggest lead. No, the biggest lead
08:01you can blow in, in the, in the post season, five minutes of game time, not scoring, including
08:05overtime. And it had nothing to do with fouls or not getting fouls. And Oh, by the way, at
08:10the end of regulation, Jared Allen was basically putting a straight check and Oh, you can call,
08:14you could have called a foul on whatever our Saar Thompson was doing on Donovan Mitchell.
08:18And we blame Donovan Mitchell. So maybe step up, maybe man up. Well, even, even like go
08:23back to that final play with Donovan, you mentioned a Saar. So it kind of, they kind
08:26of just spurred something there that last play. That wasn't all ball. Yeah. It wasn't all
08:30and listen, I, I didn't, I didn't say that they needed to call that on Donovan. I wouldn't
08:33have wanted that call. Nor did we. That's not how that game should have ended. No, not at
08:36all, but he didn't, he didn't hit that all ball. He definitely hit Donovan. And so like
08:40the, the idea that this has been one-sided, I get why, if you're a Pistons fan and if you're
08:45only looking at the box score, you're like a hundred to 54, what's going on here. You
08:49got to watch the games and, and especially with the Pistons and how they blown this.
08:52There's a lot of reasons and a lot of things you get to blame. It's not the refs. I think
08:55it's time that Anthony Lima and I get together as coworkers and friends and look at John Jansen
09:01and say, you must not know ball. It's a tough one. I don't want to have to say it. Yeah.
09:06I
09:07don't want to have to combine this mega zord of ball knowing with Lima to then look at
09:12John Jansen, a football knower and say, it seems like you don't know ball. John Jansen's
09:17bitching about fouls. It seems like he doesn't know ball. Sorry. Had to say it. Do you need
09:21Lima's like seal of approval? Cause that then gives too much credence to the idea that he
09:26gets to then indoctrine people as ball knowers or non-ball knowers. Okay. If anything, that
09:30would almost legitimize the idea that he calls you a non-ball knower. It's a two key system.
09:35So we have to agree. That's what they came up with. That's what they came up with for
09:38whether or not they flipped the switch. The two key system. Yeah, no, no, no. I know. I
09:41know, but this is promo for like 75 years, Nick, but those guys are on the same show. They're
09:45always going to turn the keys at the same time. That's what happens when you work with
09:48each other. It's a little bit too much power to Lima's ability to call out. Are you a ball
09:52knower or not a ball knower? I'm totally in bed with a monster right now, but we're, we're
09:56giving authority to the guy that said you're not a ball knower as the guy that decides
10:02whether or not you are a ball knower or not ball knower. But by joining together with
10:06him, there is now knowledge that I also know ball. No. And now we turn the keys on John
10:11Jansen and say, you, sir, no, no ball. I say you kick Lima out of the group text and, uh,
10:15and you just decide this on your own. No, no, no. When we squabble together, that's one
10:19thing. All right. That's just, that's, that's friendly fire. We've worked together for a very
10:23damn long time. When there is an outsider at the gates, not knowing ball. Oh, he's going to
10:29get it. Hey, he yelled at Ken and Anthony. We didn't even yell at you. I know, but now
10:34I'm feeling like Lima was right. John Jansen was wrong. Yeah. And now I got to, I got to
10:38side with the side that's right. And then the calves will beat the Pistons tonight. And
10:42then Detroit won't care about us ever again. And then it's on to Jerry Ferreira, I guess
10:47Ferreira him too. Yeah. All of them. Ferreira, Ferreira, Ferreira figured out what our New York
10:52beef is going to be. Yeah. That's true. Going pastrami.
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