{"id":543057,"date":"2026-01-17T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/543057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:45:21","slug":"the-pindown-good-teams-win-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/543057\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pindown: Good Teams Win Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As the title says, good teams win ugly. And the Pistons are a good team, folks! Wes and Blake hop on to break down the good, the bad, and the ugly from that narrow win against a better-than-expected Suns team. They break down why Jaden Ivey likely didn\u2019t earn more minutes than he got against the Suns, and what he needs to do to stake his claim as the season moves on. The guys discuss a few trade deadline rumors, like Jaren Jackson Jr., and Wes explains exactly why he thinks the Pistons should steer clear. Finally, they dive into Ausar Thompson\u2019s play this season: has he plateaued? What might it mean for his future in Detroit?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ve got you covered for all this and more in this week\u2019s episode!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Want to hear your voice on the Pindown? Call \u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060(313) 355-2717\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060 and leave your question as a voicemail! The guys will play your message and answer your question on that week\u2019s episode! All we ask is that you keep your questions to under 45 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the title says, good teams win ugly. And the Pistons are a good team, folks! Wes and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,297,57805,57806],"class_list":{"0":"post-543057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pistons","14":"tag-pistons-podcasts","15":"tag-the-pindown-a-detroit-pistons-podcast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115911454169515522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}