00:04oh dylan's gone pistons we have breaking news john not to cut off this conversation we can
00:12get to it when we get to it we have breaking news the pistons have made a move john oh
00:19breaking news happening during our show free agent john collins has agreed to a three-year
00:2551 million dollar deal with the detroit pistons sources tell espn the front court edition
00:31and a new lob threat for kate cunningham in detroit
00:37hmm what's that do for you um well okay so a new lob threat is this in preparation for
00:46a season without durin no he played power forward well yeah i mean clearly he's a power forward but
00:54it's how about this his three-point percentage because we want to talk about you got to be
01:01able to play with the star and we think durin you know 40 from three last year on three attempts
01:08per game decent volume yeah the year before that 39.9 from three 37 the year before that
01:16can effectively space the floor i think this is the type of player that makes sense for this team
01:20in the front court and what was the contract three years 51 that's not breaking the bank by today's
01:26nba standards no so are we heading down a road where it's this joe keep durin re-up thompson
01:35and how do you feel so he's replacing tobias is one way of right yeah this is it a better
01:40versus younger version of tobias yeah but that whole that if that's the offseason that i just
01:47described i'd be lying if i if i it's i don't think it's going to excite anyone yeah i think
01:56when we
01:56started this offseason and charted the course about finding kate or robin we weren't thinking
02:02john collins and i'm not dogging the player i think he makes sense for the team but that can't be
02:08the
02:08only significant move they make right yeah i mean he's got a great nickname looking at some of the
02:15nicknames duncan deacon the baptist because he went to wake forest yeah this still keeps the door
02:21open for something it does happen during signing and trading somewhere else right yeah i mean he's
02:26essentially replacing stewart's money and tobias's role is that one way of looking at this
02:34because stew was getting like 15 a year he's making a little more than 15 a year yeah
02:38and he's going to be the starting power forward i would imagine sure so he replaces to buy so tobias
02:42do you think tobias could still come back in a reduced role as a vet on the bench i think
02:48that's
02:48up to him yeah does he want to stay here and he's made enough money because he can get more
02:52money
02:52elsewhere or you shouldn't pay him what he could get elsewhere right right yeah he could be is he is
02:59he
02:59now the sixth man uncle t be the sixth man he'd be he'd be beasley coming off the bench
03:09yeah i mean to a degree not as good three not as good of a three-point shooter no question
03:13that up
03:13in joe i think joe's your right now he's probably the starter right and duncan's coming off the bench
03:19i don't know is it the opposite as i say isaiah joe was a bench guy almost exclusively at okc
03:23i will
03:24say this he played like 20 minutes a game he used the word in his office or end of season
03:29presser
03:29optionality he continues to create even with making moves create optionality sure i don't know like
03:36with these two moves have they done are they bringing back last year's core or not he said he was
03:42going
03:42to right but then you hear this other stuff out there yeah i don't think this has anything to do
03:47with jaylen duran i still think they're gonna call his bluff and hope to bring him back at the
03:55center and if he doesn't i still think they could make whatever pivots they want to make sure yeah
03:59i think tom's right it just it's still it continues to create options that they can have moving forward
04:06while adding another shooter
04:10john collins has played a little playoff basketball he did it with atlanta earlier in his career 12 points
04:15per game seven boards again a little bit of floor spacing and a lot of threat i think he's a
04:22complimentary piece yeah and we're again we're processing this live i think he's a complimentary
04:27piece and i think he's a good complimentary piece for this basketball team but i don't want to blow it
04:31up there's anything bigger than that which i wouldn't i mean it's okay yeah if this is the only move
04:37they make very underwhelming which i don't think it is we could take text and feedback on that i know
04:41we got people who want to talk about their jobs in the heat today we'll keep the conversations rolling
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