Do You Want The Pistons To Extend Cade Cunningham? | The Valenti Show with Rico

Do You Want The Pistons To Extend Cade Cunningham? | The Valenti Show with Rico

oh hi everybody now that may sound unfamiliar to you in there because while you poor wretches have been stuck with the Pistons there is real basketball played elsewhere Paul sarinos noted Miami Heat fan don’t get on him he’s a native Floridian uh Kenny cot does not acknowledge basketball as a sport uh the reasons behind it are detestable um but look we are going to have we are going to and by the way it is floral Friday it is which Rico did not participate in so listen well it was cloudy in like 60 degrees Kenny told me it has to be over 70 but you wanted to start with something see it’s we could try this and we have we have a Kenny cot media report at 3:00 but we are going to start with something different and Lord knows I I don’t know if it’ll work I have my doubts but based off of the NBA finals which are a big deal or used to be a big deal or something people would pay attention to even if you didn’t watch basketball all year but you want to relate it to the Pistons Mike it’s very simple when you when you watch the game last night and I’m not even just talking to Celtics I’m also looking at the the Mavericks those are that’s two different games that they’re playing that what you see here down at at at Little Caesar Arena this team is nowhere close they’re not in the same Planet Ric and then it really hit home in the pre-show meeting when when you start you were like yeah you know what Kate probably be the seventh man on Boston it was like well well no wait yeah yeah he ain’t playing over Derek white he’s not playing over Drew holiday he’s not playing over the Jays and he’s not playing over porzingis who’s the first man Off the Bench if porzingis starts Al Horford or vice versa he’s not a top six player so here’s here’s the question why the hell would you extend him for $270 million well you’re not you don’t even have a pathway to becoming one of these teams no the only pathway you have is to try to get a Kings ransom for Cade and just kind of hit that reset button because all the other surrounding pieces really aren’t that good but he’s your only valuable commodity that you have that other teams will say you know what we’ll take him we’ll pair him up with players X and Y and now we have our own little big three so yeah if if you’re the P it really just it clarified itself to me you got to move them you had an epiphany yeah it it was this is they’re are light years away from just not just being competitive but like that was the like watching your Celtics I told you man I I think that they’ll they’ll trip up and lose I know one like good Kyrie will show up in Dallas don’t say that well one game and then you’ll get to watch him win it all in game I I hate Kyrie’s guts and the whitewashing by the media last night was just unbelievable yeah oh he’s working on his Buddhism I mean go to hell the guy’s been a career cancer just say it right but Pistons fans 2485 3997 N7 do you if if you’re watching the NBA Finals did you see what I saw and I don’t see how you cannot move K you have you can extend him because to me that is not the alpha dog that is not the piece you need to build around you got to go out there you got to get more pieces because you’re nowhere close to what I saw Championship level basketball let’s see if we can come together on something did last night’s game one send the same message to you that it sent to Rico beard that tran Langdon I mean obviously this Monty Williams thing has got to shake out eventually will see if Tran langan’s a real person and not just a chat GPT creation but is the only way out for the Pistons actually as counterintuitive as it sounds trading your best player you’re you’re just you’re not in the same Planet as these teams and and frankly look I think it’s fair to say this I’m not as hard on Kate as some people are but I’m also not as optimistic as I was when he was a rookie he could end up being a very nice player but he is never going to be Luca he’s never going to be Tatum he’s never going to be brown I.E he’s never going to be an all-nba type player so without that why would you pay him like one right I I do wonder and listen I know and and I know I know guys I know work with me I’ll say this for those out there thinking I’m hating on Kate I’m actually not I’m paying him a compliment because he’s your only valuable piece that’s why I say you have to get rid of him because I don’t think people are going to be lining up for Ivy or or durren or any of the other players on the team no but for Cade you pick up the phone and you say he’s available other teams will say okay what do you want for him let’s make a deal hey you know you know I got beef stew yeah okay well I yeah sorry I needed to be able to do that once this segment you can do it all day no no no it’s game one I I live this I lived it when we played the Warriors two years ago that’s not Steph Curry on the other side I know but Lucas listen that game got down to eight Celtics were up by 29 fell asleep before the half and I got upset and then when that got down to eight in the third quarter I admit it it was same old Spartans it was Sabin Spartans for me I go here we go again here’s the difference Mike this is where Luca may want to take the offseason to get into better shape because he’s going to just flame out and his knee something’s up with his knee he’s dealing with a a big time knee problem so you’re going to be okay I hope so um but I I I think it’s interesting it had that impact on you now listen I mean if ESPN is right you weren’t watching the NBA finals and you were watching the Connecticut sun and the Chicago sky or you were watching the uh concert down at the train station sure the point is did game one of the NBA Finals as it would relate to our basketball team here locally where we have a new team President we have a new general manager we’re probably going to have a new coach I I I’m starting to feel pretty comfortable saying that and Tran Langdon is going to have to figure out right off the rip is Kade Cunningham good enough to be the alpha dog on a championship team because if he’s not get rid of him there’s no point you can’t extend it no because again you end up like Atlanta paying Trey young all that money when Trey young at his best at his best will be a robin to a Batman that has not appeared yet and you don’t want to do that so Rico is saying last night was jarring for him not because of the obvious but because both teams brother is the thing is when will you finally just admit this is your year and that this Celtics team may be one of those special teams I don’t think that you could say that because you’re expecting a collapse at any moment cuz I I kind of laugh when the leag got cut down I’m like you know what let’s go to a cut scene live at the Valen compound as you were throwing things at the screen because I can only imagine you were on the phone with big G like what is this there were some emotional texts uh sent back and forth no it was just I think hold home serve get up 20 and then Dallas has look the math on that is Dallas really going to be able to take for the next five all you got to do is keep hitting Kyrie with that two-piece combo you had last night yeah defense he was right he wasn’t not he was not ready for that that ain’t thatt man but here’s here’s the thing too right even if you comp out the Pistons future to last year look the Denver Nuggets are not going to go down in history as one of the all-time great teams to win it nor were they a team that was filled with with some of the star power right like joic is an all-nba player joic is modern Shaq now beyond that if you want to downplay guys like Jamal Murray or Michael Porter Jr you can do whatever you want to do but you still need you know would Cade Cunningham be Jamal Murray the whole premise of it is without a pathway to acquiring MH the all NBA type player you are not winning anything here’s what I don’t want please do not waste our time I mean it’s it’s like when Gibby called the other day I don’t want to hear stories from 84 I don’t want to hear him from 2004 you were scoring 70 points in beating teams if you can’t tell that the sport moved on don’t participate in the discussion now defense definitely plays a role but it’s going to be can I hold someone under a 100 not 90 not 80 and sure as h eou l hell not 70 I rewatched that game every possession counted from the opening tip let’s just put it like that but if you had the Epiphany that Mr RL beard had last night isn’t there only one mortal certainty you got to trade Cade right I mean if you don’t trade Cade what is the pathway to acquiring an all NBA player what’s the pathway to Building A team out the pathway is that then Trent Langdon has to come in and do something that the previous regime could not do and find that player with the fifth pick or that is actually becomes that all World player that one that’s buried deep in the draft but it requires a little luck and a little homework to find you have to go out and find your Giannis your Steph Curry that person that wasn’t taken one that you just knew okay that’s e wiim bayama was easy so can I ask one one more question yeah and again we’re just talking we’re here to six 10 yeah I mean I know we’re not talking about machete violence but we’re attempting to do something here with the finals I I just let’s say Rico’s pathway is true guys let’s say Tran langdon’s really really sharp let’s say he’s damn near he’s Bob Myers or Sam pry at a minimum the finding of Players let’s say you make a shrewd free agent signing and it’s cheap let’s say it turns into Derek green Jr for for the maps a veteran minimum who ended up starting mhm let’s say you find a guy all right you find your Maxi kba you you you go out and are able to procure a Tim Hardway Jr later in the first round fine fine fine fine that’s about three years that it would take to do that right cage eligible for his extension now yeah and and none of what Rico’s talking about allbe it true and it gets you to be fun and you can win some game last I checked we want to win a championship if you don’t believe trading Cade is the right move after watching last night what is because I just have personal doubts that a core of Cade Brandon Ingram and Tobias Harris is raising a banner 248 539 9797 so let’s start out with that have a little fun I mean obviously we’re not going to make today uh Inside the NBA but we could start with it make it local for those who watched it yeah it just was was sobering realizing we’re a long way away from this oh Kenny wait you ready this is exciting and there’s one key thing about last night’s game that really shows you how effed up the Pistons are and I’ll tell you about it next

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