Are the Pistons contenders? + Under the radar numbers

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Zena Keita discuss the Pistons emergence in the Eastern Conference behind Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren starting the season hot and how De'Aaron Fox's return helped Wemby right the ship. Then, the gang throws out some under the radar numbers from the start of the season. Are the Nuggets underrated? The Suns are fun and the Clippers are bad.

Host: Dave DuFour

With: Zena Keita and Es Baraheni

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.
0:09.5	I'm Dave DeFore here with Esparahenny and Zena Keda coming up.
0:13.3	The Pistons are awesome.
0:14.9	Kate Cunningham taking a leap.
0:16.6	We're going to talk a little bit about the Rockets,
0:18.3	how Deerrin Fox brought Wemby back and some under the radar numbers to start the season.
0:24.0	Good morning, everybody.
0:25.4	Good morning, guys.
0:27.7	How about this weekend?
0:29.7	We, you know, kind of a quiet weekend heading into Sunday.
0:33.5	And all of a sudden, feels like there's lots of stuff to talk about.
0:37.7	We got a really, really fun Piston Sixers game.
0:42.7	Imagine that.
0:44.2	Imagine this time, like March, me saying, guys, one of the most fun games of the weekend, Piston Sixers.
0:52.7	And it really was a lot of fun.
0:55.4	Two young teams, obviously the Sixers. And it really was a lot of fun. Two young teams,
1:01.5	obviously the Sixers, uh, no Paul George, no Joel Embed on Sunday. They, they started Andre Drummond, you know, that's kind of where they're at, uh, with their center rotation.
1:06.2	And he had a great game. This, this game came down to the wire. Tyrese maxi, uh, misses the game, tying three at the end of the game. This game came down to the wire. Tyrus Maxi misses the game tying three at the end of the
1:13.6	game. And S, my biggest takeaway from watching this game is that the Pistons might be like one dude away from being the best team in the East.
1:24.6	Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren in year four and three respectively, both seem like
1:31.3	they're dudes.
1:31.8	I mean, Cade, we've talked about quite a bit here.
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