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Good morning, sweet world!

And welcome to the No-Dongs podcast on the Athletic Network.

It's Thursday, February 27th, 2025.

I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tassmellis.

Hey, basketball lovers.

This one's for you. Next to him, it's the bearded one. Matapsha Hot Boy, Trey Kirby. Hey, yo. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer, JD. Hello. There he is. Here we are, hopefully live right now on YouTube. YouTube's being real weird this morning. Trying to set up these shows, not only this one, but we got no buffs later. I don't know what was going on, JD. I think we're alive. I think we're alive. Just, you know, just infuriating when something doesn't work. I know. And then we had a big coffee spill. Oh, yeah. I've had a day. I've had a day already, and it's not even 10-10. But hello to everyone. Hit the like button, subscribe, podcast listeners, five-star ratings and reviews. On today's show, we're going to discuss Shaden Sharps' insane dunk. Was that the dunk of the year? Paul George is taking a break from podcasting. We'll get into that.

Not us, Paul.

Nope.

Maybe YouTube's not working for him. Yeah, we shut it down.

We get into the WMBA Go talk, but first, some games last night and the big one, the

one everybody's talking about, and rightfully so, the Detroit Pistons, another Detroit

dub as they beat the Celtics

by 20 to run their win streak to eight straight and they did end a 12 game losing streak

to the Celtics this is a team that they have not beaten in a while but eight straight tasks

and pretty dominant fashion especially in the second half when it looked like you know close game in half and you're like, okay, here we go, Boston will probably pull away. The opposite happened. It was Detroit, good third quarter. Great start to the fourth quarter. Yeah, I definitely thought this was the Celtics game watching it because the threes were a splash and they're beating the pistons in the three ball department, but the pistons were grinding. They're winning in fast breaks. They're winning in points in the paint. They're winning in bench points. And in the third quarter thought, yeah, the Boston crowd is there in Detroit. It kept hearing Boston fans cheering. But the third quarter, they got to the defense. They had Tobias Harris on Christap's Porzingis.

J.B. Bickerstaff saying, that's how we're going to push him out of the lane, put Jalen Duren on Al Horford. Definitely worked. Porzengis had a quiet night. And Asar Thompson was on Jason Tatum. Asar doing an incredible job out there. on Jason Tatum had a lot on his shoulders

and the Pistons defense were just focused on him

because Jalen Brown was not in the game.

That was a part of it and I know everybody... out there. Jason Tatum had a lot on his shoulders and the Pistons defense were just focused on him

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