00:00now the the thing i want to add to the buffet i'm always hesitant to do this um i like
00:06to operate
00:07where you got to read between the lines a little bit i you know but look you talk to a
00:11lot of
00:11people you've done this long enough i get plenty of stuff all the time but i'm not big on reporting
00:17stuff not a reporter i'm an entertainer i'm hesitant to do it but i think it's relevant
00:22i was texted something by someone who covers the league on a national level
00:26all right and he offered his perspective on the pistons because i often will send very terse or
00:34sarcastic things because i have a good relationship with this person and we like to break balls about
00:38the nba it's fun um so yesterday the pistons made another one of these whiz bang pow trades
00:45for okay tory and prince and a guy who can shoot and these are all try hearts these are not
00:50the
00:50moves we wanted right and i said is that all and it turned into a longer form conversation but
00:59let me just give you the headline i have been sitting here waiting saying look i got to give
01:04trajan more time i got to give more time that something else has to be in the midst they have
01:09saved some money they have kind of moved pieces around and they have they've added some
01:15what do you want to call it c-list shooting yeah okay they're sitting there with 48 million dollars
01:22in cap space yeah well according to again person who covers the league on a national level there is no
01:32more the analytics people are in trajan's ear optionality flexibility over planting a flag
01:44with a big move that is as of today as of what they're hearing they're sourcing i i don't like
01:54doing stuff like this because it can change quickly right as we sit here right now i owed rico beard
01:59this
02:00i owed david i said like michael scott there's no question about it i'm ready to be hurt again you
02:06i was ready to give trajan more time i felt like there's no way in good faith this could be
02:13the off
02:13season bro you look like you were ready to do the announcements for the team until mason move over
02:19you got this you were believing and i'm like mike i know don't no i am has to be something
02:25else it
02:25won't it won't be milking cookies right for anybody who believes they're going to be that we're going to
02:31go ahead and leave the milk and cookies right there at the fireplace if you still want to believe
02:39thank you thank you thank you so much uh basically this is your team they're going to pay durin
02:46they're going to pay a sewer and look what we brought you isaiah joe and a backing band
02:53john collins and a trombone and a taurian prince and a boxed lunch this is your team right now
03:02now reporters get things wrong all the time one of the best reporters in the league has gotten
03:07several things wrong this summer brian winhorse i'm only giving you what i receive today could it
03:14change could it sure but as we sit here i owed this to rico and david who have tried to
03:19convert me
03:20to their church mike you don't need to be patient they're not going to make a move but apparently
03:25the end this sounds an awful lot like some of the reporting in boston right now where the analytics
03:30people are in there in the ears of these people going right you don't want to have expensive
03:35players i their move to me is okay well we brought durin back and we signed them for 30 million
03:41and
03:42we'll have money next year to pay us are and look at all the other pieces that we did we
03:47moved in the
03:48margins we're going to be ready for the eastern conference next year that's what it looked at i don't
03:53expect anything i don't expect any big splash and this is before you got your message i know no this
03:58is it
03:59because sometimes michael you just got to believe when people tell you who they are you believe it
04:05and this team has told you trajan doesn't lie when he gets up there he's not the guy who moves
04:12in
04:12silence like the g and lasagna that ain't him he just comes out there and just says we're just
04:18gonna do this let's go get some lasagna and some cannulis yeah uh two four eight five three nine
04:2597 97 for all the piston fans go ahead get the belt play the song here's your off season you
04:32won 64
04:33games you got a bomb dropped on you in the second round in game seven at home the off season
04:40started
04:40with let's get kade a running mate let's really get this thing moving instead you have kevin hurter
04:50you have john collins you have isaiah joe and you have taurian prince
04:57do you find this acceptable don't worry about me i don't even need to tell you what i think of
05:02it
05:02if this is it and at least what i was told today that is the way it sure looks if
05:09this is it you good
05:12you're gonna cape up for this you're gonna play the song maybe polish your belt this is what you
05:19did this was your off season meanwhile the calves are probably getting lebron the sixers are better
05:27than you they just landed jalen brown and the knicks well you don't get to talk about the knicks they
05:32just won the championship that puts you no better than fourth i'm not moving the heat above you they
05:39have to prove they can shoot the ball and i'm not gonna move toronto above you i need to see
05:43what
05:43that looks like what about indy they got forgotten about is halliburton the same person i mean a massive
05:51health battle plus the injury let can i can i see that i mean i love zoo bots but tbd
05:57and orlando same
05:58deal so look if that's it
06:05trajan look if that's it trajan looks like a lightweight sorry hate to tell you that see i
06:10want to correct you on one thing mike because you said the off season began with getting
06:17a batman i'm sorry a robin for kate no that was never the pistons plan that was what we wanted
06:25okay that's fair trajan langdon got up there post uh playoffs and said we're gonna add shooters
06:33that was the important thing they asked him about a score a second score of robin around him and he
06:40skirted it by saying we're gonna add shooters he did exactly what he said he was gonna do
06:45because he got four guys this off season that shoot over 41 or 40 percent joe collins prince
06:53and harris like one i am not saying okay that is great they're not volume shooters not saying
07:00that is great but i'm saying he did what he said he was gonna do which was get shooters around
07:05him
07:06for cheap and that's that is the problem we wanted big moves we saw an opportunity for the
07:13detroit pistons and he didn't seem to see that same opportunity for the pistons and i am sad to
07:20say and me and rica will stand here together this is it this is the off season enjoy it pistons
07:27fans
07:27because well i don't know when they're ever going to make moves no see mike you need to maybe learn
07:34how to speak coney ease and once you learn how to speak the language of the coney you understand the
07:41thought process that goes into the coney and you realize they tell you what it's going to be
07:48they are just this is it don't look any deeper don't go like oh but they really know that they
07:55don't very superficial just right there on the surface so i have to say this to you and i don't
08:00there's no easy way to say it what you're asking me to do is to think like a loser no
08:05i don't want to
08:06think like a loser rico not you don't have to think like a loser but mike you may want to
08:12minor in
08:13loser language got it rosetta stone right loser so that you can understand what they're saying
08:19doesn't make you a loser because you can speak their language because i'm not saying you need
08:23to participate and be like them and i'll say it again analytics is ruining sports people oh it was
08:30funny i was talking with evan remember we did a brief thing about the american league and i'm like
08:34well the al sucks and and analytics are making baseball hard to watch like it's just oh people
08:39got so upset it was like of all the things we do and we do like i thought we did
08:42some very good
08:43stuff that video like exploded and people were all upset at me apparently baseball nerds no they love
08:49their and well that's fine analytics is ruining sports you're seeing in basketball analytics is
08:53telling you don't get kate a star next to him because you can have failed r&b singer joe like
08:59the
08:59celtics are being told no no because analytically speaking we're better without jalen brown
09:04you know what you want because analytics makes people seem smarter than what they really are
09:10because you can cherry pick a stat and say oh but you don't know about this that you don't know
09:15about that stat yeah but i'm watching this team win yeah but that win didn't mean anything because
09:19i'm hildebrand at first i'm like but i'm so yeah like baseball people lost me a long time ago it's
09:25like you know what just leave me alone i think there are certain here about any yes there are certain
09:29analytics that matter but when you let the tail wag the dog that's where i have a problem if this
09:35and
09:35i have no reason to doubt this person they're a very credible reporter it's just how can you sit here
09:43and think cade can do this alone how you're analytically speaking durin and assure can't play together
09:53because i've given you the data right there it's like playing three and a half on five when
09:59those two are out there look i just given you what i got guys so if this is it and
10:06that's what i'm
10:06being told what do you make of it you're the loudest fan base in the ballroom where are you now
10:15did cleveland hurt you that bad what what would you do unplug the phone you hiding in the corner
10:23where's the rap songs and the title belts and the tough talk where are you here's your off
10:28season they gave away beef stew they literally dropped him off on a porch like the stork
10:33and said here take my baby what do you want for it nothing right tobias was like we're not gonna
10:40win
10:40a title here so i'm gonna go to somewhere where i can right no hard feelings i'm gonna it to
10:46the spurs
10:47two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven and the scoogle stuff is still in play if you
10:51want
10:52it north
10:52north
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