“Detroit was embarrassing” – ESPN reacts Pistons blow 19-point halftime lead vs. Celtics, lose in OT
Effort still lost nothing but pain how many is that now sir 28 what does that do ties the record the all time wi the alltime losing his record Mike rosin the 20145 Philadelphia 76ers so the beginning of the process Philadelphia 76ers cuz that record extended into
20156 um look like Mike you and I were texting with Pat last night you did predict that a fourth quarter collapse would happen that they would eventually end up losing by 15 but they start out this game hot 21o lead in the beginning of the i in the first quarter they force
Overtime and then they still lose um anybody want to like you know use this moment that they have here on a national platform to promote Tom Gore selling this team because now is your chance or we could just replay all of the chance that we heard last night if you want
Want to even though they were on the road I would hope that some people that traveled to the Boston Celtics game to watch the Pistons if there are any people that actually Mass like that um Zelda team what is he doing at this point Mike I know that you and I had
Mentioned this throughout the week javante I I feel your pain here this is not a streak to be taken lightly and yes we’re having a little bit of fun with it here on ESPN radio but I don’t know when this team is is going to be guaranteed
To win a game they’ve got the Toronto Raptors who have all of 11 wins right now coming up tomorrow the Spurs are on the schedule too but this is really really bad cuz it’s not like it’s not like they stink in these games like they’ve been trying like actual effort
From the Detroit Pistons mik and they still end up losing these games especially the one if they forcing overtime they looked fairly good last night they did yes they lost a 21-point lead so caveat but they looked fairly good against what many people consider the best team or second best team in the
NBA and they hung in and they’re a young team we had a clip from Tom gors earlier this week where he basically was saying listen everything’s going great except for the winning and I I likened it to the the meme of the dog sitting there saying it’s fine while everything is on
Fire or the Elmo fire where he’s got his arms stretched out and you sit there and you say okay sure Tom Gores but I’ll be honest I saw a little bit of what he was talking talking about last night and that they have some players there now
They’re also tied into their coach Monty Williams because they paid him an exorbitant amount of money and they’re not going to be able to get out of that so soon but they they showed me something last night I felt I felt legitimately bad for the Pistons players last night because
You could see on their faces like that they gave it everything against Boston for the vast majority of the game they just couldn’t hold on but Jaden Ivy is a good player K Cunningham is a phenomenal player uh you know and javante Lawrence is is a good
Fan because he stuck watching them all the time and javante I know we’ve had this segment every day and I’m just curious like where that sound that what is that like your favorite sound to make is that like where did that come from I have no idea pen made the production I
Guess one of these times I was talking and I made that sound I have no idea where that came from so basally the mic always hot the mics are always hot pretty much as always oh man all right so they’re two and 29 they have matched the trust the
Process Philadelphia 76ers with 28 consecutive losses so each time they’ve done this this week so they get to 27 that ties a single season record now they’ve got they’re tied for the alltime NBA record pretty soon soon if this thing continues to 30 straight Lo or to 29 straight losses that’s the overall
NBA record so you’d be in the history books just not for the right reasons but Mike you mentioned a really good point like it’s not like they’re not trying it’s not like they don’t have a good core the one thing I took away from Tom Gore’s don’t panic when he didn’t
Actually blink I do not think he has eyelashes I don’t know if his eyelids are just glued open but he didn’t blink when he said any of that the other day like Kade Cunningham last night had an 22 points in the first half but then he misses that three that potential
Game-winning three-pointer there’s 7even seconds left in regulation that game ends up going to overtime they end up losing I don’t know how players will continue to play like this you know it’s not just about winning one more game and Kade Cunningham said as much afterwards
It’s trying to get on track but when you are so far off track I don’t know what it takes because I don’t know if everybody’s going to be as locked in because very clearly he is you know if you want to put a c on him he’s their
Captain he’s probably their best player but is everybody else going to have that same mindset going forward that’s something that I don’t know if you’re going to be able to measure the same within every player trying to get out of this and even with Monty Williams you’re
Right they’re locked into him it’s a six-year contract he’s getting paid $78 million to coach a two in 209 I need to see more heat on him because this is not just about players not executing he’s very clearly they are this is about lineups this is about defensive
Substitutions this is about changes that you’re making within this game to help your to help your players put them in position like how have we not seen any sort of shakeup within the coaching staff I mean the front office is the front office and and they’ve made their
Bed at this point they’re going to have to deal with that in the off season is it not time for some sort of change in terms of what the coaching staff looks like and I get it Monty Williams is their head coach he’s going to be there
For a minute but but to get out of this you can’t just expect to do the same thing over and over again and Lead that’s going to eventually lead to a winning result no it won’t based off what we’ve seen and they played that way last night by the way without Isaiah
Stewart who’s one of their better players but it’s it’s at the point where it comes from ownership on down because the Pistons since Tom gors has bought the team have not been a very successful franchise certainly not the bad boys of the 80s or the Chanty bip Rasheed Wallace
Teams of the what was it late 90s early 2000s that Larry Brown was coaching this is so far removed from that there was a pride with Detroit basketball there was a pride with the Pistons for a while that just doesn’t feel like it’s there from from ownership really and that’s a
Big con a big issue so my first job Courtney coming out of college I moved to the middle of the Mojave Desert you did did I know this I don’t know if you lived in the Mojave Desert yeah I did I lived in Victorville California for a
Year and I covered a I covered Minor League Baseball there it’s the only time I’ve covered baseball as a beat in my career and they the High Desert Mavericks rest in peace they no longer exist they had a mascot actually named woly Bully it was one of the only
Mascots to ever get thrown out of a game I dressed up as the mascot for a game still one of my favorite stories to at least it wasn’t an edible mascot it was not an edible mascot we’re going to get to to Mr poptart or or M poptart or or
Whatever later the show but the thing with this team was they were the worst team in minor league baseball That season they would have 15 game losing streaks and this is every night that they’re playing 12 G and these are young players because this is high class a
Ball high or low class a ball they were losing every single night and yeah at some point you basically start to see guys check out and get tired and this I mean this Courtney this franchise was even wor this team was even worse off because they like player operations person for the
Milwaukee Brewers who was their their parent organization he actually showed up and like talked to me and he basically admitted that this team was like the spare parts in their minor league organization that’s the only time all year I was not allowed in the clubhouse the next day because half the
Team wanted to quit like that’s what you were talking about there like we’re not see so I’ve seen worse is I guess my point in all of this of saying I have seen worse and we don’t know what’s going on inside that locker room but Monty Williams has to do something to
Shake it up whether it’s coaching staff changes whether it’s more lineup changes or maybe this put James wisman in longer you have been beating that drum all week you might be the only person in North America who’s been doing that but it it’s certainly people talking about it it’s a
Shakeup that’s needed something because they are a long day long days away from the Flip Saunders era the Doug Collins era who knows maybe this is just karma for the Bad Boy Pistons coming back all of these years I don’t know it is a little bit of a bias but um
I’m just trying to figure out how this has happened the Detroit Pistons have a 28 game losing streak if they have one more loss they will have the alltime record in the NBA isn’t that something to be proud of all right straight ahead here on on Sportsman like the four
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“Detroit was embarrassing” – ESPN reacts to Pistons blow 19-point halftime lead vs. Celtics, lose 128-122 in OT
