The Detroit Pistons Have Spoken To Federal Agents

The Detroit Pistons Have Spoken To Federal Agents

Emergency broadcast everybody get in here everybody I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I’ve taken a slight deviation in my content in my career path as it were I now live for the tabloids for the gossip I love when the NBA is just like basketball TMZ okay when there’s a little breadcrumb trail

And I can choose to follow it I can choose to not when a Mariah Mills siiz plane hits the tower I’m there okay on the front lines okay camera in hand Troy Weaver and Kate Cunningham just went on the W podcast I’m sitting here pacing around

Waiting for the bomb to drop I’m sitting here thinking why is this coming out now whose idea was this whose party you know like who initiated this whose idea was it to have both of them both of them do separate interviews I’m thinking about all this [ __ ] right and you’re going to

Say you’re a dweeb you’re paranoid you’re too online guilty is charged right but this is what I do so let me cook you know what I think is weird W has plenty of coaches on he has coaches on all the time and instead he went for the franchise player that makes sense and

The general manager but the general manager won’t face the public he won’t speak to the media he won’t even speak to his own local guys right maybe he is behind the scenes right oh they’ll come out and say oh we have conversations all the time get them on the record get them

On the record at least Tom Gores I can’t believe I’m about to say this credit to Tom gors at least he spoke to the local guys it was a select group he handpicked who he wanted to talk to and who he didn’t want to talk to he’s still a

[ __ ] but like at least he talked to him right Troy Weaver he went to the feds he went to W they went on a podcast we haven’t the Troy Weaver’s been MIA for months the Pistons lose damn near 30 games we can’t get a an um

Or an uh out of this guy and he goes to W he goes to the cops what the [ __ ] we just talked last week about how what does w even do he’s a mouthpiece right he’s not doing like invest he’s not doing like real I’m not talking about like the Integrity of Journalism

Whatever most people don’t care about that but like what he does what Shams does like that’s not reporting it’s just like that’s just where you go that’s just who everybody knows so when you know that you want to here’s what I know right it’s a bad day for your owner when your franchise

Player is on W’s podcast when you think about what he does and what his actual title is when he does that guy’s podcast and talks about how the Pistons have been historically bad since he got there right he’s like I haven’t been here that long by the way and we’ve kind of

Already been through something like this before it just wasn’t this many games like this isn’t the first time and this is where I give credit to Kade is how willing he was to credit like the fans like if nothing else if nothing else I came away from that interview actually

Feeling genuinely like better about his situation and his future in Detroit than I thought I was going to like I really came away from it being like Oh so this is Matthew Stafford 2.0 like oh we’re really going to do this again okay I have room in my art for that sure you’ll

It’ll get ripped out in a decade but like for right now like sure dude but what comes with that right a lot of losing and he was pretty candid about about that shockingly candid what did I notice though to go back to the Monty Williams thing if you really want to be

Online and you really want to read into some stuff some of those questions were slanted in a really interesting way where he framed it the exact same way to both Cade and Troy where he’s like I was talking to Monty Williams at Summer League during training camp and

All he was talking about was how excited he was with like the energy that this group of guys had like how hard they worked but fast forward to now like could you have seen this happening and like the way he frames it it’s like we’re supposed to be blaming it

Subconsciously on Monty Williams because that’s like the last person you mentioned and like it’s just the way that he frames it that I like you’re subliminally knifing your head coach and you’re going to think that’s crazy but really think about this well if Troy Weaver wasn’t the one that wanted Monty

Williams in the first place which by the way he wasn’t he wanted Kevin Oly it was Tom gors that wanted Monty Williams he wanted a big swing so they got [ __ ] Monty Williams well what did w ask immediately after that he was like Troy Weaver what’s something that you think

You could be better at or that you have gotten better at as a general manager and I was like finally a good question and Troy goes probably like not always being right and then he gave some like [ __ ] quote where he’s like I can’t always get it right but I can make it

Right shut up boo tomato tomato tomato but what is he saying really right I’m not always going to get my way and when I don’t get my way I just kind of have to deal with the hand that I was dealt and in this instance that’s Monty

Williams so then he goes on to talk about like what his relationship is with Monty and to be fair basically all the [ __ ] that he said was just like what I imagine the relationship is between a GM and a coach like the coach challenging the GM to like build a

Better roster and then the GM being like no you have a good roster like you’re just supposed to use it this way and you’re just doing it [ __ ] wrong um I suspect maybe there’s been a little bit of that I think it would it it would

Explain a lot of like the weird Ivy stuff where even if you’re not a j Ivy guy like you got to admit that he’s being set up to fail because they won’t even play him in these [ __ ] games um but if they’re starting him next to Cade

That seems to be going well right then you have a guy like assar who just like the Pistons are letting up 150 points in a game and like their best defender who is also like their youngest player like he just like can’t get in the game like it’s weird like there’s some

Inexplicable [ __ ] that goes on and whether that’s Troy’s fault or whether that’s Monty Williams fault I tend to believe that it’s Monty Williams fault in this instance again because why wouldn’t he like he’s not there to defend himself and he’s kind of getting [ __ ] on again subliminal subliminally

And if you really just have to think about it um maybe I’m thinking about it too hard maybe I’m sitting here and I’m I’m pacing around out here and this isn’t even blipping on people’s Radars but I’m sitting here like full Charlie Kelly meme like literally tinfoil hat losing my mind

Because I’m like it’s happening right in front of us where’s the call coming from I think it’s inside the house whose idea was this whose idea was this we hadn’t heard from this guy in months and suddenly Troy Weaver decides it’s 2024 here’s my here’s my other

Thing if you’ve ever listened to a Troy Weaver press conference before it’s [ __ ] boring honestly it’s really boring it’s a lot of like um uh you know turn over every stone and uh and then he’ll give some like Weaver ISM and he’ll talk about like the DMV and like

Baltimore and you’re like okay like cool cool and then like it’s over didn’t he seem like a little energized during this the responses didn’t I mean they seemed canned but they seemed canned in the way that they always do with him where it’s like he the way he speaks is just very

Calculated you know but this one definitely felt a little bit more buttoned up and I was like you cuz here’s I swear to God here’s how these go they’re having conversations off camera over text in person whatever it is that way W can gather enough information that he knows what questions

To ask in order to prop this guy up or to shade whoever they’re trying to shade that’s how it goes WJ isn’t gonna he’s not going to ask him some like hard-hitting like so what happened with this like James wisman do like he’s not going to get into the weeds this is

Fluff right this is PR that’s all this is there’s a good takeaway is how hard the Pistons are clearly trying or at least Cade’s team individually is trying to like make sure the blame isn’t totally on him or rather the blame is all on him and we’re acknowledging how

Well he’s taking the blame it’s like what they spend the entire interview talking about with Cade and then Troy comes on and like the first two question they spend the first 10 minutes being like man look at how well Kade is taking all this [ __ ] it’s like okay guys like I

Get it I get what we’re doing here but like relax let’s talk about let’s talk about something else cuz there’s also the part of that that I’m not saying what he’s doing is performative because it’s not at all like he feels all that [ __ ] and it’s all real but like these

Guys know that and it also does play to their benefit to lean into that hence why you have instances of him and like his GM going on W’s podcast just to talk about like how well he’s handling it okay but it was an otherwise incredibly candid interview um like you kind of did

Get a perspective on it that we all were sure that they were feeling but to really hear it you know from the proverbial horse’s mouth in Cade um was really interesting and you know to to think that like this really does affect them in a way that like we just can’t

Even imagine because they’re the ones that are playing in the games and again I I really appreciated that he was able to acknowledge that the the the fan are still there they’re still showing up even if it’s for almost like ironic reasons um that was cool as somebody who

Went to a Pistons game like a two weeks ago I like to think he saw me and was like that fan is going [ __ ] wild he’s going crazy I got to mention this the next time I’m in front of a microphone and then he went on W’s pod and was like

Oh yeah that crazy fan that guy was awesome that’s going to wrap up today’s emergency broadcast today folks that was beautiful beautiful primary control beautiful primary control beautiful primary control beautiful

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