DISRESPECTED: Detroit Pistons SHATTER All Expectations but Still Face COUNTLESS Haters!

The Media's Dismissive Narrative

“I think that's gone too far to the point of being almost dismissive of the Pistons. Like if you want to have them above them and you have them like fifth or sixth in the contender rankings, I'd be okay with that. But having like front of the pockets we've had him on before and good dude. I'm not going after him at all, but Jason Timph of the volume, he put out his contender list and he had the Pistons at the very bottom and he had them behind Minnesota, Houston, Cleveland, New York. He had them behind all of them. And I think that's utterly disrespectful...”

Flaws vs. Strengths: A Balanced View

“But I think it's incredibly unfair and disingenuous to mention those things for the Pistons without then mentioning how the Piston strengths are capable of exposing flaws on these other teams that other teams also have like the Piston strength to dismiss the Piston strengths as if Those don't matter, but only their flaws matter. But these teams' flaws don't matter and those couldn't come up.”

Charlotte Hornets: The Only Real Threat

“When you put it like that? Look, I don't like it. For 47 games, they have legit been a very good basketball team, and that's... That's why I was hitting on with Lindsay is that I don't think that Charlotte is, if you look at Charlotte since January 1st, they are not a seventh, eighth or sixth seed. Like they are playing like a five, four or three seed in the East.”

Ron Holland vs. Javante Smart: The Rotation Debate

“The second thing is this. I, I trust Javante. to not turn the ball over as much as Ron. Because I don't think Javante is going to try to do anything outside of catch and shoot, cut, and then if it's not there, he's just going to get off the ball and he'll go stand in the corner or whatever. On offense, he doesn't do too much, but he doesn't do too much.”