The Detroit Pistons Have RETURNED To Their Roots!!

The Detroit Pistons Have RETURNED To Their Roots!!

Is it time to put some respect on the Pistons now? They putting respect on themselves. I mean, you know, like I mean, we we we all seen it, right? We was it two years ago? 20 in a row. Yeah. We we we seen the the 20 in a row. Like the 20 in a row everyone was laughing at, but if you watch the games, it didn’t look like a team that deserved losing that many in a row. It wasn’t last year’s Wizards or that Wizard team that was, you know, it it wasn’t one of those teams. It’s not it wasn’t the what we’re looking at from Indiana right now or those type of it looked like a team who played very hard and they just found ways to lose, right? They’ll be up right by seven with 20 seconds left. Found out how to lose that game, right? It was just the way they was losing was like, god damn. like who’s scripting this in a sense, right? So, you can tell that the next year was going to be very different because, you know, you get you go back to the lab, go back to, you know, film, see what you did wrong, you get older one more year and that very next year they look different. Last year made the playoffs. Yeah, last year made the playoffs. Now, now you’re looking at this year like it’s one of those teams that everyone stayed together. They got older, they got wiser, and you can see the results of it. But we seen we seen the first step was when they was losing 20 in a row, but how they were losing. I All I did was change the coach, man. I don’t I don’t mean to be that way about money, man, but four-letter words came. All they did was change the coach, dog. Like they changed the coach, added a took away JB coming in with a chip on your shoulder player or two took away added play one player added Duncan Robbins now you got a shooter you added Tobias last year he’s average 14 what he’s healthy you know so you just and like I said JB bigger come in with a chip on his shoulder based on situation coaches like Emmy Mudoka right hold my guys accountable I’m not afraid to challenge Kade challenge during challenge the guy I’m not afraid to do that in order to in. So he comes from a coaching tree, dad coach. So no, it’s Yeah. No, I’m Pistons are like it’s a down year for the East. They have confidence. Um to put this many games in a row wins is not easy in this league. They lose. Winning is a learning behavior. Winning is fun. Winning is contagious. Um, so I expect this to continue throughout this season. Um, granted they’re healthy, but yeah, they’re fun to watch, man. They’re young, energetic, playing Kate wasn’t Kate missed three games. Yeah. Thompson missed four, I think it was back. Look at like some of the Yeah. So, the fact that they’ve been down a lot of guys and still winning games, but once you learn how to win, same thing with losing. So the old f the term goes bad teams find a way to lose. Yeah. Good teams find a way to win. No matter who’s playing and that’s where they are now. Yeah. We talked about that game where K missed those 31 shots but they were down three starters in that game. He had to shoot those shots as Pistons fans. So politely told me in my mentions on the app formerly known as Twitter. Ned 45 time. I don’t know about that but shooting it a lot. Yeah. He’s looking at who else going to do like keep giving me the ball. Come on man. Get us home. Get like that’s what people don’t understand. Like Well, I do have teammates, right? They they keep giving, “Hey, hey, keep going.” [ __ ] we need you for real. Cuz we need a like he was on fire. There’s no limit. I know. There’s no limit. I can see if he was on fire at that [ __ ] and y’all keep feeding him. Was far from the case. Now, you still But but listen, [ __ ] missed 31 shots. Nick, but that’s four or five games worth of misses. when you know see that’s how you know they together 10 shots he’d be like yeah we good a let it go like who else who keep if he made 20 of the 45 I wouldn’t have [ __ ] to say sometimes it’s like sometimes I know it’s like that I know knows the game like pick your head keep shooting it’s going to go and watch oh I dig it thing you need is one I dig it they’re getting some contri ution from a lot of place. They got the the undrafted to rookie or Jenkins game. They contributed, man. The confidence grows. Guys are out. Other guys confidence grows. So now they’re getting more minutes. Now the coach know if he needs to put them put them in, he can depend on them. So that’s what this this does for when Thompson’s out, when Kade is out, when other guys out. Helps guys confidence, man. So So looking at this Piston squad, Piston made the playoffs just three times in the past 10 seasons. Haven’t advanced past the first round. Damn. since 2008. They were the six seed last season, uh, snapping a 5-year playoff drought, lost to the Knicks in six in the first round. But does this team feel at all like the 23-24 OKC Thunder, uh, a good team that’s that’s just like a year or two away from becoming a great team in this league? Thunder were I think 572 that year. Lost to the Mavs in second round cuz they doing it right. They doing it just like that. Doing it through the draft. Got the good young dudes. Got the doing it through the draft, man. Like the old Detroit Pistons. Had a couple vets before. My bad. Let me cut you off. Before the the Pistons won, beat the Lakers. How far did they did they make the playoffs the year before that? When? Before they beat Kobe and them in Oh, yeah. They got swept. They got swept. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And what round? It was okay. What round? I know. What round though? Huh? What round? Second. Oh, they came back and then they won. They beat him before. They beat him. No, they beat him before. Beat him before they came back and swept him. What happened was even that even no even that year acting to see no that year they won they started off the season was it 13 and 13 was 500 and they and they made a trade and that trade was Rasheed Wallace which then put Ben Wallace back in his true position cuz guess what? No, no, serious. So they put they put Ben So you know it put Ben back in his true position which means he’s a better helper than he was guarding the ball. You know what I was out there doing out there to the three. You know what I was out there doing? What Nola doing to the west? Same with Rasheed Wallace. That made you out that the paint cuz he was No, cuz they put one on the other side. So like Rasheed will guard like before it was like Ben Wallace had to guard Sha. Shooter though. Now you have Rasheed guarding Shaq and Ben you contested top. If you miss it, Taan catch it up top. So you have now three back line that actually and Johnson made a half court down to see the growth and Johnson made a half court shot beat going overtime. So they Yeah, it wasn’t easy. What was it? Game seven. It wasn’t easy. But what was it? Game seven. It wasn’t easy, [ __ ] But I’m just trying to see the progression of like how many they was out there putting foot to assist, [ __ ] But they end up winning. Yeah, cuz they added she only that’s what I’m saying. She only game with the Hawks was against me in New Jersey. He traded him during the game. He like, “That’s a short stop.” He knew he was leaving the next day. So he his only game in Atlanta we played in Jersey. So they he let me go. He guard me in the post. Just opening up. I’m going by banging on a five. Boom. He’s just like, “Go ahead. I’m not Hey, I’m not going to be here alone. I’m not going to be here alone. This is not my check. dead ass. They get this L dead ass like he knew he wasn’t there long but he went to Detroit they he completed them say he let he completed them so sometimes Taan would have to play the four I’m saying before he got there now he was four so they would have to long that no when that’s said when she got there Johny Rip Taan Ben so that so a lot of people don’t realize okay the team was when they became When Rasheed got there, it kind of put everybody back in their natural attributes where everybody became great at what they did, especially defensively. That’s what they do right now though. Offensively, people didn’t understand they were technically four out, one in. Mhm. That no like all four shot the ball very well from the three. Had two had treat She as a guard. They So that’s so She was a paint. You couldn’t you couldn’t be in the paint. So what end up happening is because Ben Wallace was the four but they treated him like a five on offense. For Shaq to stay down there, he had to guard wall. You know, he had to guard Ben. Now Rasheed got the smaller guy sitting on him. He’s all right. This is this easy work. And that’s what what happens there. Or you put him in the post or put or now you put him in the post right shoulder turn. It was really a hard matchup when I was trying to see the comparison. Oh yeah, a trade away. Yeah, they work from being okay. Not not really. They they they experience away. No, they experience away. They going to get rid of Tobias. Get somebody better. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Like he’s a he’s a movable piece. Like he’s the only movable piece I I’m thinking about moving everybody else. I got to I got to let them grow. Does he disappear? Steuart the Ivy. I got to let me just see. Let y’all turn into what y’all going to turn. Tobias, we know what you are. We can we can get better in this position. Yeah. And I think them other dude, yeah, like to y’all point, them other dudes, they they are solid Ivy, um, Stewart, the other guys, they bringing off. Yeah, like you, they pros, man. They they going to do their job, man. They going to compete. And once you have them kind of guys, man, on your roster, your future is bright. So, you got Dur I think be eligible before extension. I don’t know what they talking about right now. Under they got like they got money to get. They currently have 106 million allocated for next year. But obviously you got to get some conversations talking now. What’s happening? What you doing? What you Yes. Right now. Yeah. Matt. So I’m not We ain’t even playing no games. What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? Right now. What’s up? What you need? What you need? What you need? What you now community? What you need? What you need? What you need? Yes. [ __ ] I’m not playing no game. It’s a pointless It’s a pointless thing to do to go into free agency and say, “All right, let’s negotiate. I don’t need to negotiate with you.” What for? You prove it chemistry. Yeah. That that [ __ ] every that that that’s that’s a horrible feeling, bro. When you got a good thing going and you think you going to be there and that team be like, you was in that situation. We did that with Larry Hughes. Yeah. That’s why I went to the Nuggets. Like we just lo coming off allstar team. Two finals appearances. We lost to the Pistons. They went in one. Like we still top two teams in the [ __ ] top two, three teams in the East. You know what I’m saying? They make it the business make a business decision like that and ain’t been back since. Yeah. To blow a team up like that. The Pistons ain’t going to do that [ __ ] I guarantee finals then lose in the Eastern Cup. We had Larry Hughes our owner went was going into uh surgery before he went in. He said sign Larry Hughes back. Period. Yeah, that part. If I had he went into triple bypass heart surgery, woke up. The first thing you asked, “Did we sign Larry back?” Yeah. They said, “Uh, yeah, Larry left.” He cried. He cried. Because what they thought was they thought they can negotiate with Larry. Tell people heart people got heart problems. He just woke up. He He woke Yeah. So, so they didn’t realize they didn’t realize Larry, right? Larry already got screwed by free agency. He wasn’t playing this negotiating game. No. the first offer that was going to be in the range where he was going, he was taking it, right? So, you had to I told come out the gate, whatever you think is his number, if he’s asking for 60, say 60. Yeah. You try this 40 [ __ ] and someone got 55 60 out there. He’s taking it and he’s not renegot. Some people don’t negotiate. And that’s what it was. They said, “Larry, we got 60.” Sold. I go I go play with LeBron. I feel kind of hurt by that. I see that. Yeah. because it was a dumb like it was a dumb move and not only the talent like it was a dumb it was dumb like they and the talent level of the guy the problem is they was they they wanted to sign him for 60 65 get it out man just say the number first but you think you going to get him for 55 40 say the number first get it over with we good but you can’t be thirsty when you’re organization right now I’m just saying the owner already told you see what happened to the Nets sign them right Listen, I signed with the Nuggets, man. They lost half of their season ticket holders. That date when I when it came out, I was going they was signing training me to the Denver Nuggets. Half of their season ticket holders cancel their season tickets. Who? Now your economics [ __ ] up. Yeah, we have no we have no chance now. Huh? Who did they get? Nobody. Nobody. They get nobody. Nobody. New Jersey. I know. But New Jersey a fine state. when you don’t sign a player back a year and a half later has to go sign once you get there they traded Vince for Vince a year and a half later get somebody else to help fill in a year or so later they traded for or you just blowing the team up that’s basically no once you cuz what happens is you lose a player then you have to oversign somebody that you that that isn’t worth it because you you’re in a city where nobody wants to go there so you’re going to have to overpay for it. Yeah. So somebody who’s worth 30 million you got to pay 4550 especially they’re like they Yeah. So yeah. No. So, so you [ __ ] up all across the board though. Yeah. KDles car. Yeah. Like they [ __ ] you lo sock up and that’s guaranteed have season ticket. That’s guaranteed money for people to cancel that. Yeah. That’s crazy. KD’s got one of the coldest. So back to the Pistons. You got the league told him he couldn’t do it. How about that? That’s crazy, right? That’s crazy as [ __ ] You come to the league, that’s your signature and the league tell you, “No, you can’t do that no more.” You’re out of uniform, son. Another thing, side note, my bad. He just K just got a signature shoe. You think over Swaggy? That’s Go ahead. Go ahead. Side note. No, you good. Segue. It’s conversation. But like I know. Well, we can we can you you said it. Ain’t no So you think somebody wearing C? What you got? What you got on your chest, boss? Nah, I’m I’m kind of mad at you like you wanted Larry Hughes and y’all end up getting me. So you really hate Whoa. Whoa. You was still in high school when that happened, [ __ ] I’ve been out of high school for 20 years back then. Yeah. 20 years back then. Well, you was a freshman in college, remember? This is 20. This is 20045. You’re right. I graduated 04. You was in the lead that long. Yeah. What year you got there? 01. This is your second year as a senior. So, you was you was 2000. 2000. It was just your second year as a senior, right? That’s why you don’t know nothing about watching. You was watching the Clippers and the Lakers back then. You weren’t really watching. So you weren’t watching East Coast basketball back then. So I forgive you for your naivveness. Kmart swing on a rim [ __ ] Like I forgive you for your naeness. Like like you didn’t know like I knew I knew I knew I knew. Oh, you know the funny part about it. You know how like college right now they just you can you can play at 26 27. [ __ ] playing forever. He he went to court to play. Yeah. I started this [ __ ] I started this hell. He filed a lawsuit so he could be 21 in high school. He just thought this a Thanksgiving petition. Yeah, they signed a petition. Fought the fought the sister three times. The Jackie Robinson. Wait, how many times you got denied? Three times. Three times you got denied. You kept you persisted. But the Dorsy didn’t really go there. That’s why I was cuz you went to Cleveland over there. That [ __ ] [ __ ] up over there. That was your first mistake trying to go to the jungle. He was scared. Yeah, that was a [ __ ] out of there. One way in, one way out. Uh but we asked the chat, “Are the Pistons legit?” 84% of the chat says they are legit. So you mentioned K getting in the shoe. Monday was announced.

The Detroit Pistons Have RETURNED To Their Roots according to Gilbert Arenas as Gil & The Gil’s Arena react to the surprising season for the Detroit Pistons and debate if it’s time to put respect on Cade Cunningham’s squad. They highlight how they’ve transformed from one of the worst teams in the league to the best and discuss how changing the head coach and culture has unlocked a team full of talent with Jalen Duren, Ausar Thompson and Isaiah Stewart to return them to the Bad Boys era that ruled the NBA.

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