Better chance of having breakfast with Beyonce & Oprah than a Pistons win – Perkins | First Take

Better chance of having breakfast with Beyonce & Oprah than a Pistons win – Perkins | First Take

Was a history uh that basketball fans in Detroit were not looking forward to experiencing Tuesday night but the Pistons couldn’t redirect course dropping their 27th straight game with a 118 to 112 loss to the Brooklyn Nets and here’s head coach Monty Williams after the game you have to be real about where we

Are nobody wants something like this attached to them the bottom line is it’s it’s it’s my job it’s my responsibility you know basketball is what we do you take pride in it because you want to win and we just haven’t done that and again that’s on me it weighs on us every

Day I mean everywhere weighs on us all right well the Piston’s losing streak is now the longest single season losing streak in NBA history and the second longest losing streak and not just NBA history but also in the NFL NHL and MLB historically speaking now the TR

Trilling the 76ers of course who lost 28 consecutive games spanning the 2014 and 2015 Seasons so we got to talk about this let’s bring in kendri per Kendrick Perkins and Brian windhorse all right perk should the Pistons be this bad no they shouldn’t I mean their NBA

Team losing 27 in a row well make it 28 in a row because they going to lose tomorrow night to the Boston Celtics I have a better chance of having breakfast in the morning with Beyonce and Oprah than they do it beating the Celtics tomorrow so we might as well say that’s

28 in a row that’s number one number two they shouldn’t be this bad right and when you think about it they have a lot of young good players Elite Talent that’s going to be that has a very promising future when you look at k cut now when you look at iy assur Thompson

Is going to be nice in the future you know Marvin Bagley II could he could bump and grind a little bit and play in that paint so when I think about the the Pistons and where they are right now it’s just tough I want I wanted to come

On here right and I wanted to be like mad dog and I wanted to go on this rant about how they should file money Williams how he should be out the window change the scenery but that’s not g to happen they just paid him $78 million

This past off season and look mad dog I see you looking at me crazy either you can’t see or You disagreeing with what I’m saying but either way is cool here’s the problem that I here’s another thing I was on the ball club that lost 18

Games in a row before I won an NBA championship I was on the team where they were yelling the fans were yelling fire Doc Rivers well we had the youngest team in the league right and we just couldn’t get it together they’re facing a lot right now it’s still no excuse

Whatsoever but you have to remember this every team that they’re facing is trying not to be that team that they able to break their losing streak against perk the news is worse than that because their next two games are against the Celtics it’s a baseball Series in

Boston look out for that one I want to take you guys back to last February right before the All-Star break the Pistons beat this the San Antonio Spurs in a double overtime game very forgettable both teams were tanking I doubt the players even remember the game since that game mid-February 2023 the

Pistons are 4 and 51 4 and 51 we can look at this losing streak and say oh my God it’s only part of the Story 4 and 51 I’m I’m a Browns fan the worst part about going 0 and 16 was it came after a season when they

Went one and 15 okay so you look at this now last year you can say well they were tanking they were tanking at the end of the season for wanyama and I guess that that’s true by the way the tank was an absolute disaster they had the number

One chance to get to win the lottery they had the worst record by five games and they got the fifth seed they got the absolute worst outcome in the lottery that could possibly happens a disaster but the thing that makes this start so shocking and so really unexplainable is

That they’re not tanking anymore when they went in the off season they traded for veteran players now those guys aren’t contributing Joe Harris and Monty Morris they’re not contributing as you said perk they paid Monty Williams almost $80 million the biggest contract in the history of the NBA for a coach at

That time they didn’t go into this season tanking this is supposed to be the improved Detroit Pistons that have lost 27 in a row now you may say well how did it possibly get here over the last four years they’ve been doing a rebuild their GM Troy Weaver who I know

You know well perk from your time in Oklahoma City uh he drafted a bunch and acquired a bunch of point guards and centers that’s not the worst idea in the world there’s a whole bunch of championship teams over the decades as mad dog will tell you that were built

Around point guards or centers the thing about it is none of them can shoot none of them well at all he’s only really drafted one player who’s a marginal shooter and that’s sadique Bay and he traded him last year for another Center in James wisman so you look at the

Pistons and every single night in the year 2023 now 2024 about they are destroyed at the three-point line they are the worst three-point shooting team by number of makes the worst by number of attempts and they are second worst in percentage they get obliterated every night at the three-point line they’re

Also one of the worst rebounding teams in the NBA they get obliterated every night on the boards just about I think they’ve lost the rebounding Advantage like nine of the last 10 or something like that so this is just basic basketball guys you come into a game the

Other team outshoots you from three every night and you get rebounded outrebounded every night you don’t have a chance and you you look at player by player and you can break it down but that is the bottom line and I have no idea where they’re going to go now

Because they really can’t even explain there is that why they’re as bad as they are 100% you guys are right on top of it perk I’m not going to rant because you’re right on it and get good stuff good analysis Brian I don’t like the 28 By the way because that’s over two

Seasons so I don’t look at the Sixers to me streaks are one year batting streaks winning streaks losing streaks it’s a one season thing so I don’t even pay attention to the 28 they’re going to break that anyway because as you guys said they’re going to lose to the Celtic

The next two games they only got one big player Cunningham’s a good player and he didn’t play at all he got hurt he’s a good player he’s a good he scored 41 last night as a good NBA player but perk what you said is 100% they are now in a

Very rare situation because of the losing streak they’re getting everybody’s best effort even the Celtics are not going to want to lose to him tomorrow night they have coming off a big road trip where they killed the Lakers and Clippers they killed Sacramento and lost the close game of

Golden state they’re coming home and that first game off a trip is tricky and even they’re going to want to beat Detroit thinking good things in Detroit a team that won backto back titles with Chuck and that great Pistons team in the 90s and now they’ve lost all these games

In a row and you guys are right they’re going to lose three or four more before they finally win a ball game now real quick but but see oh sorry I’m sorry go ahead per no you go no go ahead go ahead Victoria well I just I just want to I

Wanna I want to follow up with you mad dog real quick who do you think should have more wins or will’ll get more wins lions or the Pistons yeah Lions have 11 they probably get to 12 yeah so that means the the NBA record is Philadelphia

Who won nine games you know that team back in the early 70s before they got Julius and mcginness and they became a really know they they’re going to win more than nine games I would think perk I’ll let you answer it they should win more than 11 I’d say they win 15 games

They should been more than the Lions will win this year in the NFL no they won’t they they would not the Lions the Lions will have more wins look and this is look you know you know what’s crazy I believe this time next year we’ll be having a different

Conversation about the Detroit pists these young guys are going to learn so much from this from this situation but I will say this Monty Williams they did pay you 78 million close to $80 million to coach one of the highest paid coaches in the league you got to adjust we

Didn’t seen Greg papovich adjust we didn’t seen so many coaches Rick car I adjust you have to adjust you have to go into this locker room and speak these young guys language you got to make them convince you got to convince them to buy into your system Wendy you talked about

The the rebound then that’s effort so if you’re not getting effort what are you really speaking in that locker room you got to get it together yeah you got to get it together because look last wi was they’ll get more than 12 wins Victoria but it may may not be till April

Right down to it oh boy that’s going to be rough cuz their last win was their home Opener

On First Take, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo is joined by Kendrick Perkins and Brian Windhorst to talk about the biggest storylines from around the NBA.
0:00 Pistons’ huge struggles
0:48 27-straight losses for the Pistons
1:20 Big Perk’s take
3:00 Windy’s thoughts
6:00 Streaks are one year for Mad Dog
7:20 Lions or the Pistons: Who has more wins?

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