00:01ouch
00:04text says i literally fell asleep watching turned it off with three minutes left in the third
00:11another says switched it over in the second quarter it was clear they didn't come to play
00:15didn't come to fight i was on netflix
00:19guys last night was very irritating the rough ride of both series falls on durin
00:24dude turned into a ghost when the playoff started name on his jersey should read casper
00:29brian at work another says imagine if the calves made their free throws
00:33they missed 16 of them and they still won by 30
00:39john did you turn it off because we all no one's making to the end of that game no
00:42um and i kept looking at it going you know what
00:46i don't want to start my week off behind the eight ball i don't want to start off
00:50trying to catch up with sleep all week long no halftime i'm out it was
01:0064 to 47 and i understand and i fully admit that they could have had a second half like
01:09they did in game six against orlando i didn't see that happening against cleveland and i thought for
01:14for the second half first of all i'm not going to waste my time i'm not going to waste losing
01:19sleep
01:20and for the half if they come back maybe we all do the jinx thing i don't believe in the
01:25jinx but
01:25hey maybe if i turn it off if i mute it like i had tried everything else nothing was working
01:30so
01:30i'm out i really debated going because of what we do like it's a quick turnaround you're not
01:35leaving in a timely manner but i said hey you know it's game seven i'm gonna go to game and
01:42every
01:42game i had been to in this postseason they won including the previous game seven so i'm thinking
01:46hey i i'm feeling good after game six i want to be in a building this is going to be
01:50great
01:52i bump into stoney at halftime he said go home and get some sleep i didn't i stuck around for
01:57another quarter and saw them go down 26 points before saying i'm out gator gator and i i mean
02:03he looked dejected too just you know this isn't worth our time let's go home so you text us that
02:08you were leaving after three and i text back i'm going to bed so i stuck to the third two
02:12and the
02:13reason did was norlando game six but also i didn't trust the calves to come out and play that way
02:18in the
02:18third quarter like i thought they were a very jekyll and hyde team all series long and they
02:23basically continued to do exactly what they did in the first half listen people don't want to hear
02:28this but i donovan mitchell probably played the best thorough game of his career last night he came
02:34out and was facilitating and the pistons weren't ready for him to dish it off they thought he was
02:39going to take the shots and it opened up everything sam merrill he was phenomenal early when they
02:46started strews and that didn't work for him really and then it just opened things up from there
02:53they got downhill early they went to the rim and that's just not acceptable for a pistons defense you
03:00can't be mad at doors all of a sudden they get two on one they're going downhill and he's able
03:05to
03:05get that second defender and throw it to a big or throw it to a shooter mitchell was very sharp
03:12pistons didn't defend well enough from the jump both things are true you start giving up offensive
03:16rebounds you start giving up drives to the paint you start putting them at the free throw line you
03:20don't get anything in transition because you're not getting any stops i mean that's that's not the
03:25pistons defense that won them 60 games that's not the pistons defense that put them in this position
03:29to host game seven of the second round and instead i get low effort bad defense in the game that
03:34ends your season plus you saw last night when there was absolutely zero help for cade what it looks like
03:41well tom at the half i'll go to the half cade's got double digits four calves and double figures i
03:46mean that's that's a great that's a great summary of it yeah i mean the legend number two had zero
03:51field goals i will say this i won't give cade a complete pass for last night i i think a
03:56superstar
03:57shows up in a moment like that and makes it happen at least early for a little bit and then
04:04but
04:04they're double teaming killed him i was just gonna say i mean is this like the chris paul meme like
04:09cape cuts it to 25 like i mean hey great performance in a bad loss anyway i mean they
04:15were losing that game because they weren't defending and they don't have enough options offensively maybe
04:19remember the game he had the series where he's 10 to 27 but really didn't play very well maybe at
04:23least that last night yeah no i'm not nobody's gonna look at that and say that's that's what
04:28he's capable of it's certainly not 248 539 97 97 we'll get to what bicker staff said after the game
04:36um at 702 because i don't think you should be afraid to call it what it is
04:41but let's get back to you guys what went wrong and uh when did you turn it off let's get
04:45to george
04:46you're on 97 one george good morning george good morning how you doing man all right how about you
04:56guys how we're doing all right all right yeah i was calling uh my take on the pistons uh first
05:03of
05:03all i want to start with kade i can't really take too much of k slander we caught this uh
05:08weeks ago
05:09at the trade deadline rather when i go back and look at the history of detroit pistons and what we
05:14have
05:14done over the years as far as to take us to the next level 1989 we traded adrian dentley and
05:20we
05:20went and got marco griot the 0-4 pistons we went and traded for rasheed wallace here this year we
05:26traded for kevin huter and daryl what's his name daryl whatever the guy name is he didn't even play
05:32in the playoffs i don't think and huter was a dmp yesterday when you play in the playoffs your
05:37your playoff roster shortens to like an eight-man rotation the pistons was playing 10 players in the
05:44first half because we had to fish for a second option you have to have a legitimate second option
05:49in order to go to the next level we have to that it has been a theme for the detroit
05:54sports to me
05:55for the lions for the tigers and the pistons so i sat there as a pistons fan i watched it
06:01all the
06:01way through because i you know the effort was not there but it was clearly that offensively another
06:06caller just called in and said they had the cleveland had the four best players and i i agree totally
06:12we
06:13only had nothing not to take away from no other players but we played marcus sasser the last two
06:17games and what did he have one minute he had what six eight total minutes for the playoffs and we
06:22had
06:22to play him the last two games i just think that's what we feel short at and at the end
06:27of the day
06:27we were who we we the journey we had was the team that we had you feel like you're grasping
06:32at straws a
06:33little bit there right when you're just hey who can we throw in here to try to save us as
06:37a life raft
06:38and it's hard to argue with that let's get to john in st claire shores john good morning
06:45good morning gentlemen sorry uh we're having such a solemn monday because the table was set but i gotta
06:53ask john as a professional athlete that effort and the lack of fundamentals i mean bounce passes are you
07:02where they should have been uh doing bounce passes uh to not you know do uh you know have any
07:08turnovers
07:09one dimensional with cade and then ending up throwing shots up off balance i mean man they're
07:17they're the wheels got loosened on the wheels came right off they really did john but i mean as a
07:25professional athlete what happens when i mean did their will get taken from them was cleveland that
07:32good or were we just that not interested in in the basic fundamentals oh i don't i don't think it
07:40was
07:40that they were disinterested i think by the end of the first quarter i do think that cleveland just took
07:47their will and crushed it and they had made a great comeback in game six in orlando they took that
07:53to
07:54seven games they made a big win in cleveland in game six and i think they just ran out of
07:59gas i really
08:00do they're they're a physical team and i i'm i'm proud of those guys i mean we've made a lot
08:06of major
08:07steps in the franchise uh so let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater but i will say that
08:15they're an athletic team and and fundamentally uh i think the playoffs now have gone back to a half
08:22court offense and you yep at a half court you gotta have post-up players that got some moves
08:30and can generate offense instead of just one guy hey john don't be late for work we heard the alarm
08:34going yeah yeah time to get up thanks guys thanks a lot enjoy the day yeah appreciate the phone call
08:43yeah yeah i mean you never want to be a no-show in a game seven or if it's a
08:47single elimination
08:48like you don't want to be a no-show it does happen not frequently and those because and i said
08:55this
08:55earlier those are the games that when you're in your backyard as an eight-year-old you're talking
09:02hey pistons calves game seven you take that shot and and it goes in and and you sit there and
09:07you
09:08cheer to yourself i just won the game like that is the moment that you dream about and to be
09:13a no-show
09:14in that game that's why it hurts so much it's one thing to lose it's another thing to play that
09:19way
09:20it's a non-negotiable this team should be playing with effort and defending and they didn't do either
09:24from the jump and it's why the game snowballed and got ugly it's why everybody's turning the game off
09:27and leaving i mean i i told you it started the fourth quarter down 26 see ya and you know
09:37as i'm i'm
09:37in here's the irony i'm in traffic i left early and i'm in traffic because everybody else was
09:44leaving early too sure in terms of traffic we're not the only ones that got to get up early to
09:51go
09:51to work no it's just it's a work night for people i mean school night yeah that too
09:57yeah so it's it's i mean if you had your kids there you're and you're thinking you know what hey
10:01if this is gonna be a game seven win i want the kids to be there to see it if
10:05not hey we're bailing
10:06because you're going to school tomorrow
10:11phone calls feedback when did you turn it off what went wrong and at 702 we gotta talk about
10:16what jb said it's 97 one
10:18you
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