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You're listening to Magic Insiders with Dante Marketelli and Jake
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cham Dons.
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Pardner surveys the landscape, working for help.
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John clocked down the fire. He's gonna go for the
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wind Shout.
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Us up, got it guy talker, you are fantastic.
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Rum gives the wind down at the free pro line
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into the corner to Silva.
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Good one for three, got it go, Rook cast it in.
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Mat Carrow Centerton spin moved to the rack, he's foul,
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Ends He'll climb the ladder and have it through.
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Here with you and one more sleep before Game three
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the Magic and the Pistons that will be tomorrow.
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It'll be a one o'clock tip at Kia Center.
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If you haven't made plans, make them, right now to
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be in the building. Head to orlantomagic dot com Slash
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Playoffs twelve.
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Thirty for the pregame show.
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I'll have the call for you right here at ninety
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six to nine the game, of course, and if you're
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headed to the game, make sure you wear black. We're
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all wearing black tomorrow and that play's going to be
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an absolutely electric atmosphere.
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I for one cannot wait, and I know this man.
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Has been chopping at the bit as well for the
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first Magic Playoff home game, as the Magic and the
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Pistons head in tied at one game a piece. Dante Marctelly,
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I haven't had your reaction yet from game two.
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I haven't had your within.
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Twenty four hours, anticipation, enthusiasm, and your excitement level at
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this point getting set for tomorrow, so the floor is yours.
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My friend took the day off yesterday. Chrissy did a
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fantastic job. But it is good to hear from you,
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and I'm amped up. I'm ready to go for tomorrow.
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I appreciate you covering for me, buddy.
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I had an opportunity to do some stuff with the
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family the last couple of days. Now that our TV
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obligations are are no more for right now, so we
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had a little chance for some catch up. In fact,
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I'm at at a volleyball tournament as we speak. My
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daughter so us.
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It's awesome.
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I gotta come here and watch the coach not put
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her in. So I'm having a ball, having a ball. Yeah, Yeah,
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we're enjoying, enjoying the heck out of that. Me and
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some other doesn't want to.
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Spend a Friday afternoon at the confection center.
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That's what I think.
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You know, I coach and everybody plays, and that's that's
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not how they decided to do it today.
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So we're having a good time.
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But dude, let me tell you something, Jake, I I
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am so excited for tomorrow because we have not felt
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like a part of this thing yet. You've been with
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the team, you've been on the road, you've been in
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the hotel, you've been on the bus, the plane, you've
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been at the arena, and this is our first opportunity
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here in city beautiful to be a part of it.
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And when we last saw you guys, it was after
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that unbelievable victory over Charlotte. Right, not knowing what to expect,
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went into that game, crowd was amped, and we knew, okay,
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we're taking off to Shot, We're taking off to Detroit.
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We got ourselves a playoff series. Then you win that
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first game, and tomorrow is gonna be everybody's opportunity to
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show out, and I think it's going to be phenomenal.
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Everybody's going to be all dressed in black, as you mentioned,
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ready for the blackout at Kia Center and just let
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this team.
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Feel the love.
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Yeah, Tuesday, the game two was tough. I thought it
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was for the first time. I thought we kind of
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went into the game and expected to lose at some point,
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which has not been our mentality. It just had a
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feeling like and even all that being said, you know
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you're tied at halftime, but it felt like, Okay, at
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some point, we've heard for three days about how mad
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Detroit is and how they're going to come out and
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beat us, and we're just kind of going to wait
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for it. And so that's kind of what that felt
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like to me. But watching outwardly, I know the team
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doesn't play that way. They've been so good here in
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this series, but it just did that third court then
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we heard it's a fiery speech from JB. Bickerstaff and
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that completely turned things around in that game in that
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third order. So, hey, now you got you accomplish a goal.
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You had to go out to Detroit, you had to
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win a game, and you stole home court. Now you
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have to keep home court. And we need the fans
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with Kia Center is going to be packed. We need
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to be loud, we need to be proud, and we
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need to play a part in this thing. And h
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and now you have a chance, right if you hold
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Serve at home, you have a chance to be up
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three to one. And so it's a it's a huge opportunity.
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It's going to be an unbelieable atmosphere tomorrow Downtown.
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Looking at some of these percentages for either team in
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the series, like to call this series a rock fight.
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It would be unfair to rock fight.
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Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, it would be very unfair.
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Yes, yes, it is a brickfest, but it's also it's
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also a throwback. It's also really good defense. It's also
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the physicality. I mean, basically they flipped the script. It
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was a fifty four to thirty four paint points game
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one favor in our favor. Uh and then Game two
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was the exact fifty four to thirty four in Detroit's favor.
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Rebounding rebound percentage for the series fifty tw point two
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for them, forty.
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Seven to eight for us. They have a slight edge.
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Obviously they kind of hammered us in game two.
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Is it as simple as whoever, whoever is the hammer
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and not the nail, whoever is able to be more
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physical without getting popped for it by the officials. Is
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it that simple that this is just you know, mano
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almano and whoever is tougher will win this series.
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Take pride in your matchup. You gotta lock your guy down.
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I kind of like what this team has done defensively,
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you know, I think that's been great with what we've
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seen here in this series. But here's here's what I
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look at it, Like, Jake, we have we we we
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win game one, right, we split the two games up
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in Detroit, and our offense hasn't showed up yet, Like,
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not even close. There is so much more that this
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team can do offensively. There's individuals that can play better
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that haven't gotten it going. I was way wrong about
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the bench. I really thought the second unit was going
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to show up in Game two and that couldn't have
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been further from the truth. You have to get something
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at some point in this series. You have to get
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something from that second unit. And I think it's the
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second unit that's gonna thrive it home. I'm telling you,
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I think two games in that atmosphere in our building
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are it's gonna be electric and it's gonna be huge
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for our team. I think it's going to be incredible,
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and I think that's what we need. We just got
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to get something going offensively. Just look just look lethargic
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and lost and you know, just just try. And you
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got a credit Detroit's defense. I mean, Detroit is one
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of the best defenses in the NBA and they do
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that too.
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If they pack the paint.
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You got to make shots, and the shooting has been horrific,
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absolutely horrific three point shooting in anything outside of the paint.
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That has to change. You're in the playoffs, So to me, yeah, okay,
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you can do all these things. You can look at
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all those numbers. You gotta make shots. This is the
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postseason and if you're gonna beat the number one seed
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in the East, you gotta score and you got to
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bring it on the offensive end more than you have been.
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But that being said, you won a game, you are
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in the driver's seat. So if your offense decides to
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break out in games three and four, watch out. This
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could be a lot of fun. I really think that
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ja gonna happen at some point. Why couldn't it happen
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tomorrow and then again on Monday in game four. It's coming,
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But man, we need it to be here, and I
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think the crowd's gonna help us get there.
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Well, you know, to that point.
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Like if I told you heading into Game three that
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Desmond Bane was shooting twenty nine percent from the field
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right right right, and three of fifteen from three point range,
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he just hadn't looked like Dez. Now, I will say
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the Pistons have done a good job through four regular
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season games and now two postseason games of taking del
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off the three point line. Like that's clearly a point
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that they're making. He scored thirty seven points in November
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at Little Caeds Arena, but he didn't make a three
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in that game, which is almost even more impressive a bit.
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But Jake, he was missing wide open threes in Game two.
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We all were, I mean, how many wide open looks
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were we missing. That's not gonna happen again, like Detroit Detroit.
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Detroit did a great job defensively, but they got lucky
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with the shots that we missed offensively. We're gonna knock
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those down in game three, don't you think? In starting
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with Desmond Bane.
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I think I think first and foremost, shooting that shooting
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the same shot at home give this team it a
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much higher clip. Obviously, I don't think Desmond band can
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remain this quiet offensively. One didn't really look like Dez
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in game one, and then in game two. You're right,
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everybody was missing open shots. But what happened in game
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two was was one.
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Thing that I am a little worried about. Okay, if
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it takes, if all takes as a JB.
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Bickerstaff fired up speech, because we know that guy walks
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around fired up all the time, and they speed and
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they had they're able to speed us up to the
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extent of a thirty to three run, right, speeding up,
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Whether it's you know, we always I think we go
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overboard with It happened in the third quarter, it happened
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in the second, in the first, it happened for a stretch,
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and that's the most important part. But if they're able
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to speed us up, if they're able to ratchet up
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the defense and we end up sort of buckling like that,
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that's very concerning. We know they're going to bring it defensively.
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How do we turn their aggression against them? Is it
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a matter of keep working the offense, get to the
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free throw line a little bit more?
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Yeah?
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Is it something where we should just expect to be
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officiated a little bit differently, because that's that hadn't been great.
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It's looked like it felt like we were getting hammered
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at the rim the entire game on Wednesday night and
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not getting a whistle there. They've done a better job,
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I think, so far of kind of controlling their physicality.
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They're shooting thirty one free throws at night. We're shooting
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twenty five and a half through two games. But that's
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got to be a big part of Neither team is
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making free throws. Both teams have been futrid shooting free
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throws seventy two and a half percent for us and
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they're sixty nine percent. But how do we turn their
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physicality against them a little bit or try to take
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advantage if they're going to be that aggressive because we
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can't allow a thirty to three run the rest of
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the series. That turn that just hands the game over
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to them.
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Well, we've seen that. We've seen these big runs throw
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this season and it comes down. I think, yeah, I
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think get into the free throw line is huge. The turnovers,
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oh my goodness, the turnovers are killers. Yes, And it's
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one guy moving into the paint and then kicking it
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out and it gets deflected, jumping in the air and
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it gets deflected.
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We got to move to basketball.
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We get when these runs happen eight nothing, ten nothing, twelve, two,
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get one. You give it to one guy, he goes
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one on one, You give it to the next guy.
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It's his turn. You give it to the next guy.
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It's you got to keep doing what got you there.
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And I think that's that's kind of the big thing.
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The turnovers escalated. Obviously, live ball turnovers can kill any team,
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but that did a job on.
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Us not getting to the free throw lines.
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And then you know, the other team comes out, knocks
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down a couple of threes, that fires up the crowd.
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You get a big couple of times you made great
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defensive plays and couldn't secure the offense, couldn't secure the rebound.
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So that's a big part of it too. But yeah,
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use their physicality against him. If they're going to be aggressive,
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then play into it.
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Be it.
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But we got to move to me. There is so
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much standing around. I go back to that Game one,
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and really for the first half of Game two, I
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thought they were electric, flying all over the floor, doing
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everything that they needed to do with that defensive energy,
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just didn't have it offensively and think, okay, we're tied
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and we have done nothing offensively. And then what I
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thought was impossible was to come out and be even
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work offensively in the second half. I thought that was
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an impossibility and they and unfortunately that's what happens. So
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I think you're gonna be better offensively, but you gotta move,
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you gotta move. We have to see the ball go
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through the hoop, and then we know what that does
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to our defense when you see that shot go in,
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when everybody's touching the basketball, when you're getting I'm talking
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twenty eight thirty two assists here in game three, right,
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everybody's feeling it. Well, Now Gog's blocking shots, Now Wendell
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is getting offensive rebounds right, and now Jamal Kine knocks
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down that corner three. Every Anthony Black is attacking the
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basket getting to the free throw line.
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I just think you gotta for us.
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It doesn't it shouldn't always be that way, but man,
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it is hard to have the juice you need defensively
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when you shoot twenty eight percent from the floor.
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Yeah, and the basketball has power.
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As you mentioned, seventeen assists the other night, that ain't
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gonna cut it. I mean, seventeen assists and a half
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might be what we should be aiming for right right,
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And look, when you shoot thirty two percent or whatever,
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that's it's hard to come about assists. But I think
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there's ways that we can help the offense out a
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little bit. The fast break points have been there because
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there have been so many turnovers, but getting into that
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sprint game and just fanning out getting some shots in
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transition I think.
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Would be good, especially when we're talking about that second unit.
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If we can get Anthony Black, Tristan to Silva going
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in transition, I think that would be a huge key,
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real quick before the break. Dante Kid Cunningham is just
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on another level right now for the series. He's averaging
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thirty three flat, seven and a half assists, five and
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a half rebounds. He's shooting fifty two percent from the field,
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and you talk about having gotten going from three point range.
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That's a bit of a concern.
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He's only a thirty four percent three point shooter for
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the season, but he's only at twenty eight for the series.
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He's still a little bit of meat left on that
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bone as well. What can you do with this guy?
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He almost has that Luca thing where it feels like
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he's just gliding around the floor, going at his own pace,
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and we have nothing.
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We have no way of stopping him.
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It just sort of weaves his way to a fourteen
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footer and and he's got the frame, he's got the
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range to get whatever he wants. It feels like, I
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don't know what we got to do with him, but
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I know we got to do something.
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Well.
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It's interesting you said it on the radio broadcast in
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games one and two, and they say it on the
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national broadcast, and we've said it when we covered the game,
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me and JT when we've been up there in Detroit,
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and I hear everybody, you just can't speed him up.
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You can't speed the guy up.
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He goes at his own pace, as you just mentioned,
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but he's so comfortable with the basketball, and if you
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throw a double team at him, he finds a wide
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open guy in the corner, or find somebody finds Durham
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for a lob at the rim. He's just playing with
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such confidence right now. But then you think, okay, well,
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in game one he at thirty nine, but just shut
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everyone else down right, nobody else could was able to
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get anything going, so that might be part of the formula.
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And then get it out of his hands at times, right,
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throw a double team at him, and you know, when
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when you're trying to get a run going, or you're
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trying to hold on to a lead, get it out
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of his hands and make someone else speach it, which
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they have plenty of guys that can do that. But
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you know, if you try to get it out of
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his hands as much as possible, I think that's your
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and then deny it coming back to him. He does
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have that size sixty seven six eight. You know it's
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hard to keep him from getting the basketball. But you
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know Jalen does a phenomenal job when he's on him.
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You've got Anthony Black, I think you know, you might
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get to a point, you know, I think about you know,
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Tayshawn Prince when they dusted him off and put him
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on Tracy McGrady, and it was like every breath that
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Tracy McGrady took, Tayshawn Prince had to be in his jersey.
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You might do that with Anthony Black and say, you
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know what, when you were on the floor, you simply
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are hounding him. You're shadowing him, You're hounding him. If
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you use six fousand and eight minutes, that's what it is.
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You know, if you like whatever it is, whatever it takes.
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I don't know that they'll do that, but that could
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be an option here at some point too. But if
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you can, you know, if you can live with him
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getting his thirty and shut everyone else down, you're okay.
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But you can't have him getting twenty seven. You can't
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have him getting a triple double and multiple guys right
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have it going like they did in Game two as well.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And I like the idea of when he comes off
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it maybe denying immediately afterwards, because they do that a lot.
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It's like a repost, but it's just kind of a reset.
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Always got one doll in front of him, flip it
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over to Duran, give it to me right back, and
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now I've got him sort of backpedaling and where I
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want him, and it's got to be changed ups. Like
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you can't just double the ball out of his hands
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for forty eight minutes, because you're right, he'll pick you apart.
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He's you know, he's like Lebron tossing out of the
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double team. It's if you're gonna do that, you got
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to do it very, very carefully. And getting other guys going,
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for sure is not a great idea either. Okay, break time,
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to learn more. Love the idea of the blackout tomorrow.
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It blew out on Monday. We saw the spurs. Everybody's
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it's kind of a big deal right now. Is do
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you wear the T shirt that they put out on
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the seats, And if you don't, do you make sure
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that you at the very least are in line with
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the color scheme.
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I will be decked out in black tomorrow to be sure.
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But you know, every single little bit kind of helps,
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I think, and we know that that place is going
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to be electric, but think so inclined towards presentation these
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days and how it looks on TV and how it
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looks when it's clipped up on social media. We got
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to have everybody on board tomorrow. That place needs to be.
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It needs to be a sea of black. It needs
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to be like midnight at the Kia Center tomorrow at
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one o'clock.
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Right, don't you think. And I'm looking forward to seeing that.
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I think it's gonna be terrific. I think it's part
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of the ambiance, the atmosphere. I think Magic fans are
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gonna embrace it. I'll have a black suit on as well.
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I'll be ready to go. We got to take this
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thing serious, right If that, If that's what we've come
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up with, and that's the mandate, we're gonna do the blackout.
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We've seen it in other buildings. I think it's a
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really cool look. And you're right it just if nothing else,
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that kind of shows uniformity. It shows that we're all together.
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It shows that. Now obviously gonna have you know, the
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smattering of Pistons fans that are in the building, and
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they obviously want oblige. But yeah, whether you want to
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wear the shirt or not, you got to be decked
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out in black.
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That's what we're going for.
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That's the that's that's what we want to set for
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the atmosphere and the environment, and hopefully, I'm sure everyone
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will do that. Magic fans are so savvy when it
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comes to that. And then we need you loud. I mean,
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I'm talking you know how loud it was in Detroit
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at times. We did a great job of quieting that building.
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I thought early, seemingly on radio, that's what it sounded like.
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We got to make sure we bring that energy tomorrow,
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and I know they will. They have been waiting to
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celebrate that game one win for now seven days. That
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is going to be a terrific environment. It's gonna look
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the part, it's gonna sound the part, and hopefully it
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adds up to a Magic win.
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Did you real quick on the on the the T
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shirts thing? Did you see the Spurs Fiesta colors for
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Game one?
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Yes? Yes, yes, yes, it was awesome.
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They obviously had all the you know, pink and orange
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and all the different Fiesta colors and different sections. But
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if David Robinson and Tim Duncan are not too cool
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to put on the T shirt you're not too cool
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magic fans right, and nobody has an excuse during somebody
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right excuse exactly?
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Last thing, all right, we talked about the bench stepping up.
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I think that's obviously a big key.
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Who when you and we and Kate Cunningham is the
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one torching you for the Pistons?
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Who else?
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Like when I doubt I say play every time Javonte
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Green is on the floor, it feels like he's given
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us issues. Where else are you look and you say,
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whether it's somebody who needs to step up for us
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or somebody we need to get a handle on for
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the Pistons. Who is your X factor to keep an
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eye on tomorrow? For either Detroit or Orlando.
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I want the four block shots Goga bitase, That's what
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I want.
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Gets the crowd going.
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He's challenging everything that we saw in the Charlotte game,
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that we saw in game one. I want Anthony Black
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making defensive plays. Jamal Kaine's gotta knock down a few shots.
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I'm telling you, the starters are gonna do what they do.
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We gotta get Desmond Bang going. I never worry about
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those guys. There'll be off days and things like that,
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but to me, what can separate us in this series
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is to get that second unit going. It has got
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to happen, and if it doesn't, you got to look
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at other guys. You got to look at other guys
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if those guys don't.
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Give you what you need.
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And I know it's tough because you've got guys that
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you know, you kind of shorten the rotation for the playoffs,
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but listen, you're trying to win and it's all hands
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on deck and you got to win by all means necessary.
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So that's the beauty of Coach Mo's. He'll look at
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everything and if guys are giving you what he needs,
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you get the opportunity.
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If not, you know, he'll look elsewhere. But I expect
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that's all going to be.
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We're going to get everything we need effort and energy wise,
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and I think the difference in this game is going
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to be what the second unit does. I truly do,
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And listen, if we can get that lid off the
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basket for Dez, you just don't worry about him because
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he's been so good all year and he's been.
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So good in his whole career. Yeah, okay, didn't shoot
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it well in Detroit.
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I expect that to be a big difference maker, and
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we've not seen, in my opinion, Jake, we've not seen
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Isaiah Stewart, Javonte Green, those guys have the impact that
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they can. We've not seen Duncan Robinson have the five
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to three pointer game right, We've not seen those things.
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That scares me because that could all happen here in
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game three as well. We got to keep that. We've
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got to keep their effort and energy guys at bay
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here in game three as well.
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Yeah, it felt like Stuart at the very least had
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a bounce back. He made very little impact in game
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Game one, definitely brought the rim protection in game two.
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Brought the personal files as well. As we know he
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is wont to do.
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Jalen Suggs the Jalen that we saw for the first
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eight minutes of game one, extrapolate that for thirty six
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minutes tomorrow afternoon, and that's what I expect to see
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at Kia Center Game three, Jalen feeding off of that crowd,
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which should be absolutely electric, a blackout at Kia Center.
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Game three against the Pistons tied one game apiece. He's Dante,
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I'm Jake. We'll be back on Monday, and hopefully we'll
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be talking about the Magic with a two to one
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series lead and getting you set for Game four coming
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up on Monday night. We'll talk to you guys on Monday.
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Have a great weekend, and go Magic.
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Playoffs twelve.
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Thirty for the pregame show.
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headed to the game, make sure you wear black. We're
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all wearing black tomorrow and that play's going to be
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an absolutely electric atmosphere.
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I for one cannot wait, and I know this man.
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Has been chopping at the bit as well for the
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first Magic Playoff home game, as the Magic and the
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Pistons head in tied at one game a piece. Dante Marctelly,
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I haven't had your reaction yet from game two.
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I haven't had your within.
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Twenty four hours, anticipation, enthusiasm, and your excitement level at
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this point getting set for tomorrow, so the floor is yours.
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My friend took the day off yesterday. Chrissy did a
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fantastic job. But it is good to hear from you,
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and I'm amped up. I'm ready to go for tomorrow.
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I appreciate you covering for me, buddy.
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I had an opportunity to do some stuff with the
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family the last couple of days. Now that our TV
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obligations are are no more for right now, so we
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had a little chance for some catch up. In fact,
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I'm at at a volleyball tournament as we speak. My
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daughter so us.
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It's awesome.
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I gotta come here and watch the coach not put
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her in. So I'm having a ball, having a ball. Yeah, Yeah,
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we're enjoying, enjoying the heck out of that. Me and
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some other doesn't want to.
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Spend a Friday afternoon at the confection center.
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That's what I think.
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You know, I coach and everybody plays, and that's that's
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not how they decided to do it today.
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So we're having a good time.
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But dude, let me tell you something, Jake, I I
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am so excited for tomorrow because we have not felt
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like a part of this thing yet. You've been with
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the team, you've been on the road, you've been in
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the hotel, you've been on the bus, the plane, you've
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been at the arena, and this is our first opportunity
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here in city beautiful to be a part of it.
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And when we last saw you guys, it was after
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that unbelievable victory over Charlotte. Right, not knowing what to expect,
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went into that game, crowd was amped, and we knew, okay,
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we're taking off to Shot, We're taking off to Detroit.
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We got ourselves a playoff series. Then you win that
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first game, and tomorrow is gonna be everybody's opportunity to
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show out, and I think it's going to be phenomenal.
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Everybody's going to be all dressed in black, as you mentioned,
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ready for the blackout at Kia Center and just let
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this team.
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Feel the love.
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Yeah, Tuesday, the game two was tough. I thought it
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was for the first time. I thought we kind of
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went into the game and expected to lose at some point,
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which has not been our mentality. It just had a
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feeling like and even all that being said, you know
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you're tied at halftime, but it felt like, Okay, at
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some point, we've heard for three days about how mad
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Detroit is and how they're going to come out and
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beat us, and we're just kind of going to wait
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for it. And so that's kind of what that felt
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like to me. But watching outwardly, I know the team
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doesn't play that way. They've been so good here in
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this series, but it just did that third court then
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we heard it's a fiery speech from JB. Bickerstaff and
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that completely turned things around in that game in that
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third order. So, hey, now you got you accomplish a goal.
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You had to go out to Detroit, you had to
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win a game, and you stole home court. Now you
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have to keep home court. And we need the fans
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with Kia Center is going to be packed. We need
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to be loud, we need to be proud, and we
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need to play a part in this thing. And h
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and now you have a chance, right if you hold
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Serve at home, you have a chance to be up
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three to one. And so it's a it's a huge opportunity.
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It's going to be an unbelieable atmosphere tomorrow Downtown.
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Looking at some of these percentages for either team in
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the series, like to call this series a rock fight.
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It would be unfair to rock fight.
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Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, it would be very unfair.
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Yes, yes, it is a brickfest, but it's also it's
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also a throwback. It's also really good defense. It's also
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the physicality. I mean, basically they flipped the script. It
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was a fifty four to thirty four paint points game
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one favor in our favor. Uh and then Game two
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was the exact fifty four to thirty four in Detroit's favor.
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Rebounding rebound percentage for the series fifty tw point two
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for them, forty.
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Seven to eight for us. They have a slight edge.
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Obviously they kind of hammered us in game two.
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Is it as simple as whoever, whoever is the hammer
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and not the nail, whoever is able to be more
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physical without getting popped for it by the officials. Is
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it that simple that this is just you know, mano
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almano and whoever is tougher will win this series.
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Take pride in your matchup. You gotta lock your guy down.
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I kind of like what this team has done defensively,
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you know, I think that's been great with what we've
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seen here in this series. But here's here's what I
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look at it, Like, Jake, we have we we we
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win game one, right, we split the two games up
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in Detroit, and our offense hasn't showed up yet, Like,
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not even close. There is so much more that this
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team can do offensively. There's individuals that can play better
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that haven't gotten it going. I was way wrong about
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the bench. I really thought the second unit was going
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to show up in Game two and that couldn't have
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been further from the truth. You have to get something
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at some point in this series. You have to get
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something from that second unit. And I think it's the
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second unit that's gonna thrive it home. I'm telling you,
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I think two games in that atmosphere in our building
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are it's gonna be electric and it's gonna be huge
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for our team. I think it's going to be incredible,
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and I think that's what we need. We just got
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to get something going offensively. Just look just look lethargic
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and lost and you know, just just try. And you
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got a credit Detroit's defense. I mean, Detroit is one
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of the best defenses in the NBA and they do
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that too.
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If they pack the paint.
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You got to make shots, and the shooting has been horrific,
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absolutely horrific three point shooting in anything outside of the paint.
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That has to change. You're in the playoffs, So to me, yeah, okay,
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you can do all these things. You can look at
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all those numbers. You gotta make shots. This is the
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postseason and if you're gonna beat the number one seed
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in the East, you gotta score and you got to
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bring it on the offensive end more than you have been.
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But that being said, you won a game, you are
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in the driver's seat. So if your offense decides to
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break out in games three and four, watch out. This
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could be a lot of fun. I really think that
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ja gonna happen at some point. Why couldn't it happen
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tomorrow and then again on Monday in game four. It's coming,
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But man, we need it to be here, and I
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think the crowd's gonna help us get there.
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Well, you know, to that point.
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Like if I told you heading into Game three that
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Desmond Bane was shooting twenty nine percent from the field
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right right right, and three of fifteen from three point range,
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he just hadn't looked like Dez. Now, I will say
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the Pistons have done a good job through four regular
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season games and now two postseason games of taking del
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off the three point line. Like that's clearly a point
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that they're making. He scored thirty seven points in November
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at Little Caeds Arena, but he didn't make a three
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in that game, which is almost even more impressive a bit.
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But Jake, he was missing wide open threes in Game two.
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We all were, I mean, how many wide open looks
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were we missing. That's not gonna happen again, like Detroit Detroit.
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Detroit did a great job defensively, but they got lucky
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with the shots that we missed offensively. We're gonna knock
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those down in game three, don't you think? In starting
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with Desmond Bane.
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I think I think first and foremost, shooting that shooting
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the same shot at home give this team it a
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much higher clip. Obviously, I don't think Desmond band can
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remain this quiet offensively. One didn't really look like Dez
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in game one, and then in game two. You're right,
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everybody was missing open shots. But what happened in game
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two was was one.
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Thing that I am a little worried about. Okay, if
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it takes, if all takes as a JB.
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Bickerstaff fired up speech, because we know that guy walks
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around fired up all the time, and they speed and
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they had they're able to speed us up to the
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extent of a thirty to three run, right, speeding up,
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Whether it's you know, we always I think we go
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overboard with It happened in the third quarter, it happened
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in the second, in the first, it happened for a stretch,
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and that's the most important part. But if they're able
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to speed us up, if they're able to ratchet up
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the defense and we end up sort of buckling like that,
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that's very concerning. We know they're going to bring it defensively.
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How do we turn their aggression against them? Is it
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a matter of keep working the offense, get to the
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free throw line a little bit more?
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Yeah?
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Is it something where we should just expect to be
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officiated a little bit differently, because that's that hadn't been great.
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It's looked like it felt like we were getting hammered
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at the rim the entire game on Wednesday night and
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not getting a whistle there. They've done a better job,
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I think, so far of kind of controlling their physicality.
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They're shooting thirty one free throws at night. We're shooting
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twenty five and a half through two games. But that's
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got to be a big part of Neither team is
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making free throws. Both teams have been futrid shooting free
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throws seventy two and a half percent for us and
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they're sixty nine percent. But how do we turn their
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physicality against them a little bit or try to take
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advantage if they're going to be that aggressive because we
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can't allow a thirty to three run the rest of
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the series. That turn that just hands the game over
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to them.
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Well, we've seen that. We've seen these big runs throw
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this season and it comes down. I think, yeah, I
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think get into the free throw line is huge. The turnovers,
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oh my goodness, the turnovers are killers. Yes, And it's
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one guy moving into the paint and then kicking it
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out and it gets deflected, jumping in the air and
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it gets deflected.
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We got to move to basketball.
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We get when these runs happen eight nothing, ten nothing, twelve, two,
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get one. You give it to one guy, he goes
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one on one, You give it to the next guy.
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It's his turn. You give it to the next guy.
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It's you got to keep doing what got you there.
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And I think that's that's kind of the big thing.
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The turnovers escalated. Obviously, live ball turnovers can kill any team,
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but that did a job on.
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Us not getting to the free throw lines.
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And then you know, the other team comes out, knocks
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down a couple of threes, that fires up the crowd.
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You get a big couple of times you made great
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defensive plays and couldn't secure the offense, couldn't secure the rebound.
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So that's a big part of it too. But yeah,
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use their physicality against him. If they're going to be aggressive,
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then play into it.
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Be it.
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But we got to move to me. There is so
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much standing around. I go back to that Game one,
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and really for the first half of Game two, I
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thought they were electric, flying all over the floor, doing
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everything that they needed to do with that defensive energy,
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just didn't have it offensively and think, okay, we're tied
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and we have done nothing offensively. And then what I
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thought was impossible was to come out and be even
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work offensively in the second half. I thought that was
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an impossibility and they and unfortunately that's what happens. So
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I think you're gonna be better offensively, but you gotta move,
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you gotta move. We have to see the ball go
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through the hoop, and then we know what that does
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to our defense when you see that shot go in,
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when everybody's touching the basketball, when you're getting I'm talking
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twenty eight thirty two assists here in game three, right,
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everybody's feeling it. Well, Now Gog's blocking shots, Now Wendell
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is getting offensive rebounds right, and now Jamal Kine knocks
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down that corner three. Every Anthony Black is attacking the
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basket getting to the free throw line.
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I just think you gotta for us.
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It doesn't it shouldn't always be that way, but man,
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it is hard to have the juice you need defensively
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when you shoot twenty eight percent from the floor.
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Yeah, and the basketball has power.
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As you mentioned, seventeen assists the other night, that ain't
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gonna cut it. I mean, seventeen assists and a half
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might be what we should be aiming for right right,
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And look, when you shoot thirty two percent or whatever,
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that's it's hard to come about assists. But I think
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there's ways that we can help the offense out a
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little bit. The fast break points have been there because
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there have been so many turnovers, but getting into that
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sprint game and just fanning out getting some shots in
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transition I think.
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Would be good, especially when we're talking about that second unit.
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If we can get Anthony Black, Tristan to Silva going
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in transition, I think that would be a huge key,
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real quick before the break. Dante Kid Cunningham is just
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on another level right now for the series. He's averaging
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thirty three flat, seven and a half assists, five and
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a half rebounds. He's shooting fifty two percent from the field,
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and you talk about having gotten going from three point range.
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That's a bit of a concern.
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He's only a thirty four percent three point shooter for
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the season, but he's only at twenty eight for the series.
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He's still a little bit of meat left on that
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bone as well. What can you do with this guy?
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He almost has that Luca thing where it feels like
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he's just gliding around the floor, going at his own pace,
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and we have nothing.
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We have no way of stopping him.
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It just sort of weaves his way to a fourteen
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footer and and he's got the frame, he's got the
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range to get whatever he wants. It feels like, I
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don't know what we got to do with him, but
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I know we got to do something.
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Well.
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It's interesting you said it on the radio broadcast in
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games one and two, and they say it on the
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national broadcast, and we've said it when we covered the game,
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me and JT when we've been up there in Detroit,
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and I hear everybody, you just can't speed him up.
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You can't speed the guy up.
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He goes at his own pace, as you just mentioned,
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but he's so comfortable with the basketball, and if you
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throw a double team at him, he finds a wide
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open guy in the corner, or find somebody finds Durham
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for a lob at the rim. He's just playing with
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such confidence right now. But then you think, okay, well,
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in game one he at thirty nine, but just shut
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everyone else down right, nobody else could was able to
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get anything going, so that might be part of the formula.
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And then get it out of his hands at times, right,
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throw a double team at him, and you know, when
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when you're trying to get a run going, or you're
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trying to hold on to a lead, get it out
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of his hands and make someone else speach it, which
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they have plenty of guys that can do that. But
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you know, if you try to get it out of
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his hands as much as possible, I think that's your
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and then deny it coming back to him. He does
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have that size sixty seven six eight. You know it's
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hard to keep him from getting the basketball. But you
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know Jalen does a phenomenal job when he's on him.
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You've got Anthony Black, I think you know, you might
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get to a point, you know, I think about you know,
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Tayshawn Prince when they dusted him off and put him
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on Tracy McGrady, and it was like every breath that
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Tracy McGrady took, Tayshawn Prince had to be in his jersey.
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You might do that with Anthony Black and say, you
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know what, when you were on the floor, you simply
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are hounding him. You're shadowing him, You're hounding him. If
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you use six fousand and eight minutes, that's what it is.
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You know, if you like whatever it is, whatever it takes.
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I don't know that they'll do that, but that could
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be an option here at some point too. But if
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you can, you know, if you can live with him
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getting his thirty and shut everyone else down, you're okay.
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But you can't have him getting twenty seven. You can't
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have him getting a triple double and multiple guys right
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have it going like they did in Game two as well.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And I like the idea of when he comes off
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it maybe denying immediately afterwards, because they do that a lot.
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It's like a repost, but it's just kind of a reset.
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Always got one doll in front of him, flip it
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over to Duran, give it to me right back, and
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now I've got him sort of backpedaling and where I
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want him, and it's got to be changed ups. Like
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you can't just double the ball out of his hands
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for forty eight minutes, because you're right, he'll pick you apart.
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He's you know, he's like Lebron tossing out of the
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double team. It's if you're gonna do that, you got
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to do it very, very carefully. And getting other guys going,
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for sure is not a great idea either. Okay, break time,
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to learn more. Love the idea of the blackout tomorrow.
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It blew out on Monday. We saw the spurs. Everybody's
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it's kind of a big deal right now. Is do
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you wear the T shirt that they put out on
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the seats, And if you don't, do you make sure
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that you at the very least are in line with
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the color scheme.
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I will be decked out in black tomorrow to be sure.
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But you know, every single little bit kind of helps,
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I think, and we know that that place is going
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to be electric, but think so inclined towards presentation these
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days and how it looks on TV and how it
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looks when it's clipped up on social media. We got
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to have everybody on board tomorrow. That place needs to be.
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It needs to be a sea of black. It needs
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to be like midnight at the Kia Center tomorrow at
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one o'clock.
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Right, don't you think. And I'm looking forward to seeing that.
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I think it's gonna be terrific. I think it's part
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of the ambiance, the atmosphere. I think Magic fans are
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gonna embrace it. I'll have a black suit on as well.
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I'll be ready to go. We got to take this
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thing serious, right If that, If that's what we've come
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up with, and that's the mandate, we're gonna do the blackout.
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We've seen it in other buildings. I think it's a
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really cool look. And you're right it just if nothing else,
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that kind of shows uniformity. It shows that we're all together.
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It shows that. Now obviously gonna have you know, the
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smattering of Pistons fans that are in the building, and
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they obviously want oblige. But yeah, whether you want to
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wear the shirt or not, you got to be decked
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out in black.
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That's what we're going for.
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That's the that's that's what we want to set for
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the atmosphere and the environment, and hopefully, I'm sure everyone
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will do that. Magic fans are so savvy when it
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comes to that. And then we need you loud. I mean,
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I'm talking you know how loud it was in Detroit
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at times. We did a great job of quieting that building.
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I thought early, seemingly on radio, that's what it sounded like.
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We got to make sure we bring that energy tomorrow,
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and I know they will. They have been waiting to
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celebrate that game one win for now seven days. That
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is going to be a terrific environment. It's gonna look
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the part, it's gonna sound the part, and hopefully it
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adds up to a Magic win.
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Did you real quick on the on the the T
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shirts thing? Did you see the Spurs Fiesta colors for
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Game one?
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Yes? Yes, yes, yes, it was awesome.
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They obviously had all the you know, pink and orange
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and all the different Fiesta colors and different sections. But
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if David Robinson and Tim Duncan are not too cool
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to put on the T shirt you're not too cool
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magic fans right, and nobody has an excuse during somebody
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right excuse exactly?
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Last thing, all right, we talked about the bench stepping up.
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I think that's obviously a big key.
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Who when you and we and Kate Cunningham is the
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one torching you for the Pistons?
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Who else?
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Like when I doubt I say play every time Javonte
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Green is on the floor, it feels like he's given
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us issues. Where else are you look and you say,
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whether it's somebody who needs to step up for us
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or somebody we need to get a handle on for
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the Pistons. Who is your X factor to keep an
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eye on tomorrow? For either Detroit or Orlando.
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I want the four block shots Goga bitase, That's what
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I want.
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Gets the crowd going.
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He's challenging everything that we saw in the Charlotte game,
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that we saw in game one. I want Anthony Black
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making defensive plays. Jamal Kaine's gotta knock down a few shots.
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I'm telling you, the starters are gonna do what they do.
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We gotta get Desmond Bang going. I never worry about
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those guys. There'll be off days and things like that,
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but to me, what can separate us in this series
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is to get that second unit going. It has got
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to happen, and if it doesn't, you got to look
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at other guys. You got to look at other guys
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if those guys don't.
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Give you what you need.
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And I know it's tough because you've got guys that
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you know, you kind of shorten the rotation for the playoffs,
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but listen, you're trying to win and it's all hands
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on deck and you got to win by all means necessary.
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So that's the beauty of Coach Mo's. He'll look at
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everything and if guys are giving you what he needs,
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you get the opportunity.
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If not, you know, he'll look elsewhere. But I expect
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that's all going to be.
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We're going to get everything we need effort and energy wise,
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and I think the difference in this game is going
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to be what the second unit does. I truly do,
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And listen, if we can get that lid off the
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basket for Dez, you just don't worry about him because
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he's been so good all year and he's been.
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So good in his whole career. Yeah, okay, didn't shoot
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it well in Detroit.
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I expect that to be a big difference maker, and
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we've not seen, in my opinion, Jake, we've not seen
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Isaiah Stewart, Javonte Green, those guys have the impact that
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they can. We've not seen Duncan Robinson have the five
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to three pointer game right, We've not seen those things.
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That scares me because that could all happen here in
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game three as well. We got to keep that. We've
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got to keep their effort and energy guys at bay
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here in game three as well.
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Yeah, it felt like Stuart at the very least had
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a bounce back. He made very little impact in game
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Game one, definitely brought the rim protection in game two.
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Brought the personal files as well. As we know he
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is wont to do.
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Jalen Suggs the Jalen that we saw for the first
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eight minutes of game one, extrapolate that for thirty six
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minutes tomorrow afternoon, and that's what I expect to see
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at Kia Center Game three, Jalen feeding off of that crowd,
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which should be absolutely electric, a blackout at Kia Center.
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Game three against the Pistons tied one game apiece. He's Dante,
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I'm Jake. We'll be back on Monday, and hopefully we'll
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be talking about the Magic with a two to one
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series lead and getting you set for Game four coming
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up on Monday night. We'll talk to you guys on Monday.
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Have a great weekend, and go Magic.
