00:01let's get to business jeremy auto stop yelling at david you guys figure out your timing later
00:06well he doesn't want to play my cuts so we had an argument that's all right well you're putting
00:10up more fight than the pistons did last night so kudos to you wow let's just dive in i'm gonna
00:15say something it's not to be provocative and i just need probably 15 seconds for you to listen
00:21before you get angry turn the channel or do whatever you're doing okay okay all right you
00:27ready rico let's go this is really simple i don't like what happened last night i love it
00:33and i didn't stutter let me tell you why i loved it i loved it because that is exactly the
00:40slap in
00:41the face that this delusional organization needs so that they can't go into their summer play and
00:47grab ass with each other making balloon animals and high-fiving about how smart they are you are
00:54not close to a championship you are not close to being anything real and you need to get cade some
01:01effing help not guys who should be selling tile at home depot not that there's anything wrong with
01:07that it's just i wouldn't look for an nba 2 guard in the tile aisle of home depot so yeah
01:14game seven
01:15at home he's gonna play the rings and things good i'm glad you got hit with an effing chair
01:22because now you don't get to get seduced you don't get to do what the tigers did in thinking
01:29you had a top five offense let me check my notes you don't i know it sucks and i know
01:35in the short term
01:36it hurts it's awful but understand long term you're going nowhere with this approach effort and defense
01:48raise your floor they cripple your ceiling so cool you you want a playoff series great you know what
01:58honestly i think we all know deep down if wagner doesn't die you're already home so the fact that
02:04this came back to detroit and rico if cleveland made feel it made half of their missed free throws
02:10they win by 45 i i only say that i'm i like the way it went down is because trajan
02:18langdon doesn't
02:19get to play pretend anymore now we are at a crossroads or if you've got something more fancy to call
02:25it
02:26shottenheimer's dog occam's razor crossroads is just fine mike because in that game you talked about the
02:35free throws here's a little stat for you cleveland could have just said we opt out of the fourth
02:40quarter and they still would have won the game by five i'm leaving rico's here till six no it just
02:47and again i i have no slander for kade cunningham he is one of the top three usage rates in
02:54the league
02:55except the other guys play about 33 minutes a game that's jalen brown or joel m beat this kid's
03:00playing 42 minutes a night he does he has no help so i have nothing for him it's good to
03:07see playoff
03:08tobias back again last four games of the series go look the biggest thing that bothered me about last
03:15night it they didn't it was almost like you always do the spider-man thing game six calves were game
03:24seven pistons you know where was the energy the fight for you know for a team that purports to be
03:32lang it felt off all night it did mike and look it almost felt like there was no no one
03:40to galvanize
03:41this team no one to say hey we've been here before because they haven't no one to kind of lead
03:47them
03:47out of that darkness because to me they became five individuals who were all trying to hit 20 point
03:53shots like it was nba rocking shock you know it was like guys pace yourself and maybe you can get
04:00nope you're just gonna jack up another bad shot okay this is what we're doing and and i'm watching
04:05this and i i can't believe what i'm looking at because it's like it was stunning they collapsed
04:12but to what you said you needed this you didn't need to lose a 15 inning game like the tigers
04:19did
04:19because it makes you feel like man if we would have just did this one little thing we're okay
04:24you needed to get hit in the face with a garbage can you needed that because now you got to
04:31make
04:31the tough choices you saw this team wasn't ready and trajan at the trade deadline said hey i'm gonna
04:37kind of treat this as a test i'm gonna see what the team needs i don't want to make any
04:42moves let me see
04:42what well you see exactly what you need trajan danis jenkins can never be your leading scorer of a game
04:50and you expect to win and go far in the playoff there's something else to this too okay and nothing
04:56against dennis but he can't be your leading on a championship team he's a dnp cd yeah he's a
05:01charity case here people put a superman cape on him and play him 25 minutes a night the real thing
05:07that was jarring was for a team that fancies themselves as an elite defensive unit and i'm not
05:15i'm not going to overly nerd here but like when you look at their off ball defense and their screen
05:19defense rico you know in football we always use the term assignment sound okay when you're watching
05:27that game last night and you're watching okay you're off ball defense you know you don't want
05:32to give up the corner three but you have to be able to kind of stunt down to fill a
05:37gap and recover
05:39that's what helped defense it they were out of position all night to the to the point where
05:44like karis lavert your mission when you're facing a shooter is you're going over the top of the screen
05:50because the big is going to be in drop that's fine karis multiple times went for superman plays to try
05:58to steal the ball instead of just fighting through the screen so now what happens you get pancaked into
06:03the screen and there's sam merrill wide open like all the assignment stuff just went out the window
06:09like that goes what i'm saying they became five individuals instead of this tough team concept
06:14we're going to play this suffocating defense everybody wanted to be the hero and like you
06:19said they're like well why are you you're out of place don't go there stay with your okay it was
06:24wild
06:25and tobias was another one tobias and karis lavert were the biggest two offenders of it and you could
06:31see and atkinson atkinson said it i mean i think we've been saying it basically since like game two
06:35okay wherever asura thompson is we're just going to go somewhere else or we're going to screen and
06:40re-screen and develop the matchup we want but i just was stunned at the overall i mean the overall
06:47result you could have given me a guess of 10 outcomes i never would have come to calves by 50
06:52i just wouldn't especially after you how you dominated game six and you went in there and took
06:58their heart and it leads me to wonder were they celebrating too much thinking okay kind of how the
07:04calves i felt like when the calves won game five they celebrated saying we're going back home we
07:10got this fair this is money in the bank let's face it they're two immature teams donovan mitchell had
07:15never been by the second round bigger staff lord knows hasn't been passed the second round in his
07:19life the pistons players not their fault young maybe it's immature teams not title worthy you know
07:25what you could be right because cleveland had an opportunity to close it out on their home court
07:29fell on their face and then i think detroit felt like well we got this we've made it all the
07:35way
07:35back we just beat orlando in game seven sam merrill it's three two and now it's not the the other
07:43thing is this was and guys listen we want to keep the aperture as wide open as possible because there's
07:48so much to talk about so don't feel like you're boxed in all right if you want to bring up
07:54the durin
07:54thing do it you want to bring up bickerstaff i have thoughts you want to talk about the offseason
07:59you want to vent about last night i want to keep it as open as possible because there's a zillion
08:04things but the the thing you just hinted on this was the chef's kiss for the durin conversation yeah
08:12i mean alan and mobley were in the kitchen now i'm not telling you to throw durin out with the
08:19bathwater
08:19but there is no world i mean i i know the reports are the pistons are going to still end
08:24up at 40 for
08:25him a year i'm not doing it they can i'm paid for my opinion i'd like to have him here
08:30but any
08:31conversation they were trying to get him for sub 30 preseason he wanted 30 they knew well i think they
08:38had an idea they knew but the difference is the regular season isn't real the playoffs are what
08:45basketball is i can't pay you 40 a year i can't and the other problem and look i have stats
08:52to back
08:52this up so inevitably when you want to argue with me uh i will drill you the way jared allen
08:58did
08:59a sore and durin can't play together not in the playoffs and i have stats that will back this
09:08you weren't just a bad half court offense you were worse than the brooklyn nets offense when those two
09:15were on the floor together in the playoffs just absorb that for a minute so we'll talk and there's
09:22a million ways to go just understand it's not slander it's not known to being mean i want you
09:29to look at the bigger picture of why last night it's good they got their jaw cracked at home because
09:34now
09:35they can't play grab ass and talk about how smart they are all dogs you know trajan wearing a title
09:41belt no no you go to work and get cade some help before cade decides he wants to be somewhere
09:47else
09:47yeah because i mean the fact that it was just allen and mobley that was embarrassing like where have
09:53these two been like wow they are dominating their paint they are just getting anything that they
09:59want that think about it wasn't mitchell going out there dropping 50 or harden all of a sudden
10:05dropping 30 it's like these two but all those dunks all those mitchell assists early when you go back
10:13and look that the help side defense was so bad up top that by the time mitchell gets to the
10:19lane
10:19you're scrambling to stop ball and now you've got free runners on the baseline and good on mitchell
10:24it's a guy averaging two assists a game and he had like six in the first quarter that was like
10:29it was
10:30it was intentional but the pistons off ball defense by the way he was huge this series hey you want
10:37to
10:37keep him around fine he could be the team mascot b-ball paul getting spit roasted on defense holy hell
10:43what are you doing at the free throw line well we didn't bring him on for defense
10:52248-539-9797 we are just getting started you can go anywhere you want to go game seven
10:59the offseason vent players any points do whatever you like and we'll get to your phone calls rico go ahead
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