Do you know what today is? It's our anniversary. Baby, you with me. Hey, by the way, happy anniversary to you and me, Juju. It's been right around one year since I started coming on the alley. For sure, man. I didn't even realize that I was thinking about tonight's game sixes. You did. But that is a fun fact. I didn't realize that time be going so fast and you'd be so stressed out about this and that that you forget to look around and smell the flowers, man. That's right. We got these games sixes tonight. We got calves, pistons. We got spurs, wolves. I put more money on Detroit for game five. Bruh, last night. The night before last, I mean, Trista is the funniest person on the world. Last episode, she was like, you know what? When the Detroit Pistons be winning, I just throw a little bit more on them. And they are going to lose this game. I keep betting on the pistons bigger and bigger amounts every game. All it takes is 20, 40, 60, 80 dollars. I feel like my sister must have threw a hundred dollars on their ass in the fourth quarter because what a piss poor performance that was down the scratch. They were up nine with two and a half minutes to go. And I was like, yeah, let's put some more money on them. Let's put some more money on them. If you look at my bet slips, like if you go to my DK account and you look at all of the bets that I've lost, like just click the tab that says lost. It's literally like Detroit pistons, Detroit pistons, Detroit pistons, Detroit pistons, Detroit is like 10 or 12 bets that I've lost. Bruh, speaking of them pistons, though, bro, you said it. Nine point lead with a couple minutes left, bro. You got to close that door, man, especially during the playoffs. The playoffs, we ain't talking practice. We talking the playoffs, man. I think that Kate Tullax, a days ago, at the end of the game, man, got a script by Max Cruz. Like what what stood out from you from jail and during bench the whole fourth quarter, what stood out from you from the game, bro? I think number one, you know, and I like to always look forward when I'm watching something and I'm like, hmm, you know, you see, for example, like somebody talk about a player in a post game, like or an exit interview and you're like, huh, I wonder what they're trying to say. Right. Jalen Durand was a restrictive free agent last summer and they couldn't come to a deal and then he becomes an all star. He's averaging 20 and 10. And now he's got the single largest drop off for a player in playoff history, averaging 10 points a game in the playoffs, but also getting benched for B ball Paul, who did not play a single minute in the first three quarters. And it was the right move. And now you're thinking to yourself, what does that mean for Jalen Durand this offseason? Is there a possibility that Jalen Durand is going to have to take less money or have to take money somewhere else? Because if I'm the pistons and I've got money to spend, you know who we need? We need other scorers. We don't need to be spending 40 million on somebody who can't even play in the fourth quarter in game five. We got B ball Paul. Let's just let B ball Paul and Isaiah Stewart rock out. And maybe we can spend some money on, I don't know, Ella Brown, James. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Or somebody, you know what I mean? So somebody that's not Duncan Robinson, who has played phenomenally, but has back injury or Tobias Harris, who really played not very well in this game. The first game in like six games, he hasn't had 20. But like you need a backcourt or a or a Robin to Cade. What you have is a bunch of Alfreds on this Detroit Pistons team and no Robin. Bruh, I ain't gonna lie to you, bruh, as close to Robin can be. As you just said, basketball, Paul, man, like, bruh, 10 points, eight rebounds. Then play quarter one, two, nor three, 10 points, eight rebounds, two blocks. Important, important. Important blocks. Like, right, bruh. So if I'm if I'm coached, bigger staff, I'm damn near considering starring basketball, bruh, because he is out there literally producing for you. His availability is paying off. Jail endurance availability is stankin' up the joint, bruh. Like you got he not even getting the rebounds that I think a person of his stature should get. He had like three, four rebounds over two games. That can't be the case, bruh. And with the effort, the defensive effort, I saw Thompson is putting forward. Like, folks, they're stepping, Dennis Jenkins, stepping up. They're giving you something, but we need our other star, our other all star to God. Just give us something, bruh. Can you give us something? He was a minus 16 Jalen Duren and B ball, Paul. He was a plus zero, but he only played 10 minutes when four for seven. The thing about about Jalen Duren, like you said, is he's the other all star. Wasn't Tobias that made the all star team. It wasn't Osar who I thought Osar played great defense. Really, probably they could have had the ball with one and a half seconds left to go if that foul call would have been called. And then Detroit's now at the free throw line. Osar is good for one point out of two and the free throw line. And Detroit doesn't even have to be in overtime. They don't even have to be in this situation. That's neither here nor there because at the end of the day, you still gave up. You didn't score the rest of two and a half minutes. You did not score a point. Right. When I saw Tobias Harris, he hit that three and then he did the, I think this was called 12. I'm not sure what he did right here. I think it's the three point phone. Oh my goodness, bro. I was like, no, in my head on the couch, I said, no, I don't like that. Yeah. And then it wasn't the, it wasn't the sign, but I was just like, that's rich. But did you even know that Kevin Herger played in this game? Bro, I ain't even see my boy. Salute to Red Velvet, bro. He might use a couple more minutes. I saw Sasser stepped up. It's not like, bro, as much as everybody, I'm not mad at nobody on that roster, bro, because we said it all year, you said it for sure all year. That roster is not constructed for championship competition just yet. We're going to have, we're going to move how Kade move. Kade look good for three quarters. We look good for three quarters. Kade look, Lads of Days is going to fourth. We Lads of Days is going to fourth. So I don't think it's, it's the blame of anybody outside of, and I hate to keep doing this, but Jalen Durham, bro, what are you like, you got to do some elbow somebody, punch somebody, do anything, brother, pump us up, brother, because you damn near should get benched next game. Yeah, I'm going to put it out there. I don't even think he should play next game. I also think Juju, I think that's a great point. You know, and there's, there's a level of responsibility to the roster construction, but yeah, even when Kades not taking shots. He's still involved in the offensive set. Yeah. A hundred percent of the time. I didn't know this. I mean, I could have guessed, but Kade has the highest usage rate of anyone in the playoffs outside of MB, but MB didn't play all the games. Yeah. So it's Kade. Kades usage rate is 33 percent. That's higher than Luca's regular season usage. This guy has the ball in his hands so much that they resorted to blitzing him, which I thought was actually a great defensive game plan that I would instill more, especially when you go back to Cleveland, just take the ball out of his hands and make Tobias Harris beat you. I think that's really fair, but like Kade is required to do everything. And eventually the body can only withstand so much of that usage before you start to get tired. And so if your usage rate is that way, quarter one, quarter two, quarter three, quarter four, when they need you, now you're gassed. Maybe you should be given the ball to Tobias in the beginning of the game. Maybe you should get the ball to Dennis Jenkins more in the beginning of the game. Maybe you should give those lobs to Isaiah Stewart and Jalen Dern in the beginning of the game. It's just a tough situation. And like, listen, Caris Lever, it was awesome in game four. He f***ing stunk in game five. Like seven shot attempts on like, yeah, I feel you, bro. Like I'm damn near. I forgot about Isaiah Stewart yesterday. He did a phenomenal job in my opinion. My boy even knocked down a trade ball. Like, bro, we're getting stuck. We're getting everything. Bro, we're getting everything. We getting everything we need from everybody up and down the roster, bro. Jalen. But at the same time, speaking of being tired and what you can't take no more of in the form of just this basketball world referees. Look, bro, we shouldn't have to come on here every day on episode and tell y'all what a foul is, what it's not a foul. The end of the game. Bruh, in my opinion, Tony Brothers made a vibe decision and said, you know what? Y'all just gave up a nine point lead in two minutes. You don't deserve this foul. On what earth is this not a foul with a second left? Might I add? Come on, bro. That's a trip right there. And there's a couple of tents left. Great. Would you have wanted that file called last night? Trish, if I was also I would. I think, though, it was a little bang bang bang bang. It looked like also might have fouled on a Mitchell. So it was like, we're going to not call that one. We're not going to allow this game to end on Fritos. How about that? Like at the at the at this point, we're going to allow you guys to throw the ball back out and see what it is. But that's a trip. That's that's legitimately a trip. And the problem is, is that you could have you could have contested the out of bounds in terms of who it went off last and then get approximate foul review if your asses would have had a challenge and you did it because you wasted that challenge on something that was quite meaningless earlier on in the game. But I'm with you on that for show, man. But these NBA coaches, for some reason, don't understand liberty nor life nor the Constitution nor the Liberty Bill. But why in the fuck are you challenging something in the first quarter in the playoffs? You know, I don't care if you saw it go off on off on him. I don't care. I need my challenge at the end of the game. No matter what, all our games have been closely contested. All Tony Brothers do is be on bulls. Yes, I'm going to keep my challenge just because. Yes, that's our that's our ball. But it's the second quarter and we up seven. I'm not challenging it, bro. I think the next I think they got the highest success rate on challenges because they they keep it real. But unless it's I'm talking about squeaky clean obvious four K video of the ball going off this brother, we don't need it until the fourth quarter, man. Prime example, like you said, bro, you had your challenge in that spot. But I'm challenging it wasn't I don't I saw. No, it was a file. Oh, two free throws rewarded game time. We're up three, three, two going back to Cleveland. Instead, look at yourself. Look at you. Now you go back to Cleveland in a must win situation and Cleveland hasn't lost yet at home, so not a great spot if you're Detroit. And like I really do hope that the Detroit brass when they get eliminated, whenever that is, that they go and take a hard look at their roster and say, you know what, Trista was right. We don't have enough. There she is. She's back. Do you want to see who would you prefer to see the next play? Because I prefer to see them play the Cavs at this point, because it's too many times this stuff keeps happening to the Pistons where they look great. And then all of a sudden they don't. And then on the other side of that, you got Kat and them boys looking like they hungry right now. I don't even think that Jalen Duren has any piece of what it takes to go out Kat right now. So I would rather see Kat go up against the Robinson. You feel me? Or if OG can get back or Macal goes just aggressive mode. Like he been doing. I would rather see these Cavs go against that. I think it's a better matchup. What you think? I agree. I think I want to see Donovan Mitchell get past the second round. I want to see James Harden, who almost turned into a pumpkin in the fourth quarter. Almost. He was he was half pumpkin, half princess. OK, in the fourth quarter. You know what I mean? Like there were some moments. All day you call my boy a pumpkin princess, man. Come on, bro. No, it wasn't even the princess that turned into pumpkin. It was the it was the buggy that was the other way. So he was one part buggy, one part pumpkin. And I thought that, you know, missing the free throws killed them. Some of those three point attempts were fucking Fugazi. Why are we even taking these? They were 0 for 9 at one point in the fourth quarter. Like, yo, can we just move the ball around? Stop throwing into the stands. Anyway, they get the. He reviewed that because the coach can actually review that last three when he keep jumping up. Yeah, come on. Come on. So I want to see James Harden finally, finally. Yeah. Be good. James Harden and like clutch, clutch crucial situations. I want to see him ball out in game six. Like I want to see him go up against the Knicks and give us a big Madison Square Garden performance. I want to see Donovan Mitchell heal that damn ankle in two five two point five seconds with some holy water and get busy in the garden as well. I want to see Evan Mobley continue to shoot those threes, continue to go up for lobs, continue to get those big rebounds. Like I when the calves are playing in their flow and they're not in their own way, I think they're just a much more fun brand of basketball to watch than the pistons. That's for sure. For sure. And speaking of every mobility, did you see the damn slash she had on his face looking like a scar from Lion King last night? I did not see that. But I don't even know if they caught this damn file. My boy looking like scar. This is going to be here forever on my boy for moving forward. Look at him. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Bro, it looks like somebody. What 50 my boy? Like what in the hell? So yeah, I would rather see him move on. Can you imagine? Oh, my goodness. If Donald and Jimmy Hardin find a way to eliminate the nicks. Yes. New York, bro. Y'all that would be the goofiest way to go out, bro. Even goofier than losing to the Pacers last year. This would take the Cape. It would. It would. And it would it would cause a lot of ruckus in the east. We're now talking Janice trades. You're we're now talking like is is O.G. a potential trade piece to go somewhere or Micael. Like I know he had a great series. You know, the thing the thing that I I think about players who do nothing and then they have a great series is I think this is a perfect time to trade you. Everybody, everybody wants to buy low. Or are they everybody wants to sell low and buy high? That's like what our emotions and our psychology want us to do. So Nick's fans see this from Micael Bridges and they're like, oh, my God, this is Micael we've been wanting. Yes, this is finally we finally get that. No, more often than not, what you do 80, 90 percent of time is who you are. Yeah. 80, 90 percent of time. Micael ain't. You know what I mean? You get a good series or two out of Micael and you get bounced in the Eastern Conference finals, which is where you got bounced last year. We need to be taking those stats. Oh, yeah, beautiful, beautiful stats and sending them around the league. It's like, do you need this guy like? Yeah, Atlanta. Do you need the next lose? They for sure break it up. I'm through with it. If it don't work this time, we need to chop this thing up for parts, man. So who need them? Who need them? Well, yeah, man, moving on, brother, to the West side. West side. Timberwolves, Spurs, the elbow hurt around the world, even France. You worried for your Timberwolves? Yeah, it's over with the same for the same reason, though, that I want. I would prefer if the Cavaliers move on. I'm not necessarily a Cavaliers fan. I like Detroit a little better, but I'm a fan of basketball more than my my wants and needs. I would love Ant-Man to go on, brother. Like I want Ant-Man to just win a championship, but the Thunder right there waiting on whoever next and them boys are banged up. My boy needs only work right. Most of the games Dante Divenchenzo already out. So I think the Spurs have a way better fighting chance against the Thunder. That's why I would. Unfortunately, kind of. Rather see that happen. You know what I mean? Spurs Thunder might be the most anticipated Western Conference finals since like Houston, Golden State. Yeah, yeah. And then like the reason that was like fell off a little bit is because Chris Paul got injured. Yeah, but like if everybody's healthy, I don't know if I'll have another Western Conference finals. I've been as excited to see. Yeah, and it could go seven games and literally be decided by two points, four points every single game of the series. Yeah, but Timberwolves ain't out yet. Like what do they have to do to even to well, to to stress this thing to a game seven? What do they have to do? Because I like Ayo, but sometimes, bro, stop. A little much like you feel me? What do you think they got to do? Ayo's reckless. He's wild. He's out there like a, you know, a DB that thinks he's a wide receiver. You know what I mean? He's like, bro, you don't have hands like you need to stop. He's he thinks he should be taken more shots than he should be taken. I think, you know, we need a lot of Julius Randall. I think we need him to go to work. We need Ant-Man to get cut through the paint and split defenders and open things up and spray that out to the folks on the perimeter to shoot. We need great Nas, Nas read above the break threes. Yeah, man. That's that's another thing that we need. We need Jaden McDaniels from the Denver series to reemerge. He needs to come back and give us some of those offensive performances that we saw when he was putting the black hood on, you know, and talking. We need physicality. We need to get when be frustrated. We need to get him emotional. What they did in the third quarter, where they ended up going on this crazy run, they need to have that level of intensity all four quarters. Right, bro. And you know what else? Chris Finch, I need you to realize that if Ant-Man is getting double teamed while bringing the ball up to court, either as soon as he passes the ball, he sprints to a corner so that now that we have to make a decision, you either got to stay over there or here or don't have Ant-Man bringing the ball up and send him to the corner, allow him to cut. But it's too many instances where Ant-Man bringing the ball down. He double teamed to have court. He passed it and just stand around half court. Wait for it. And it's like, bro, coach time out. Let's draw something up. So hopefully I hope Chris Finch can also contribute to some of this as well. And the other roleplayers usually like if Ant-Man is getting blitz and you know he's getting blitz and he passes you the ball. Yeah. I don't give a f*** if he's standing there waiting for the ball again. They are trapping you now and you're going to be the one with the turnover on your jacket. Exactly, bro. Go to the whole Tarris, Tana, Junior, bro. You very aggressive. Same thing as Ayo. I feel like if they could just not take a red bull before the game or the pre-workout or whatever, just a little bit more under control instead of getting in the paint and trying to realize, oh, Rudy, anybody. No, go up, float it. If you feel me, yes, Wimby's there, but you got to be practicing your high archers in practice. That's what time it is. Yeah, or just get close enough to him where his arm can't block the shot. Like go up underneath him and draw contact and see what it is. Come on, man. Chris Finch, call us, bro. If you need some help, bro, let's say that. We got you. I would need a couple hundred and we'll get you right, man. Thousand on that hundred just in case you didn't know. But moving on, man, to the W, bro. The W is back in full effect, which means a lot of flopping is back in full effect. Ladies and gentlemen, Katelyn Clark, you are my sister. I do not know what the hell you was up to with that Morgan Wildland concert. I'm not going to judge you because I don't look to you for advice. I look to you to play basketball. But during the basketball game, you can't get you can lose the ball and then. Oh, my God, bro. Oh, my God, lose the ball on your own. Push, pull, Ariel and flop at the same time. But what are we doing, sis? Flopping, she may be one of the most egregious floppers I've ever seen. And truthfully, that's one of the reasons that people don't like her. You know, there's a lot of reasons people don't like Katelyn Clark. But that's like that right that right there, that motion of the. The victim. Yeah. Na, doc. This is why I didn't like Lauren Betts when she was in her not her super senior year, but her real senior year to not this year, but the last year. Yeah. Is that she was always flopping. And it was so it was so like weak, weak sauce. Yo, get strong. Don't don't try and play with the reps. Exactly. That's why I like my sister, a big out from the Atlanta dream. She used to lean in more into the flopping like every time you touch old flopping like my sister, Tiffany Hayes, sometimes I love a sister. But you know, she's going to get that file call. I think that the casual fans of the WNBA see stuff like this and take the Twitter. Oh, this is why. So ladies, bro, like, please just play ball, man. Take it from how embarrassing, shake, give just Alexander and them looking. They the best in the world right now and still resort to God them tripping you and hating on you and trying to get a call from the referee. But you ain't got to do that. Mike Tyson, I'm going to do all that. But I'm going to knock you out, man. That's facts. That's facts. You feel me? Moving on, though. It's the same game. Cam Brink. You feel me? Look, she was she was on the hot seat for a little while. And I feel like Erica Wheeler. Big a necker. The veterans of that team done sat, sit down and say, look, bro, you are future. We need you. And she locked in. Look how she did. Kate, the last night. Yeah. She said, get that out of there. I think she said, get that F in this out of here. Look at her. Get that fuck. She's there. Yeah, can't talk that. Can't that what we talking about? That's the can we've been looking for. Yeah, well, it's not just about the block either, Juju. Right. Not about the three blocks. Exactly. Also, when you when you do that, what we're seeing the get that fuck out of there. I just put your in the third row data. That's confidence. Yeah. That's confidence. That's a peacock. She got the ball. She's turning around. She's going up and under. She was one of the more potent scores in the paint. Yeah, she got cooked in the paint as well. But she still had three blocks and she's still showing you. I can protect the rim and I can do it on one of the best scores in the league. So I like what I'm seeing from Cam in this in the second game. For show, man. Great response to public criticism for folks all on in your business. How about this? Let me go out there and be the dog. I know I am. You did slew the eweezy in the squad, bro. I think her future is so bright. All she got to do is make sure she got on the right specs like me and you bear. All she got to do is make sure she cool. But that right there is going to do it for another episode of that alley. Oh, any last words on the way out of his sis? Man, these broken wings. So I can fly again. See you later, Detroit. I know this might be a shit. But guess what? It doesn't matter what I say. Where my money goes is what the universe treats me like. So I'm going to talk that. Go get a robin for Batman. Yeah. Hey, Jaden Brown, we just said I was really hollow. Oh, we're not eating two Batman's. Oh, look, speaking of that, though, we're going to tune in next episode on and discuss that. Thank you as always to Miss Rebecca Donahue and our brother, the distinguished Dylan. Oh, my goodness. And thank you for listening and tuning in, man. Without y'all, who the hell are we? Lock in on YouTube with us, man, on this this Friday, today, Lebatar Show and then on Tuesday at DLS Hoops on YouTube, man. Appreciate that. Same bat time, different bat channel. Oh, yeah.
