Best of the Pistons on 97.1 The Ticket: Lack of respect for the Pistons? Cade Cunningham the villain and Knicks/Pistons Playoff predictions

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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The Pistons are finally back in the playoffs! Costa and Jansen, Karsch and Anderson and the Valenti show with Rico preview the series, give predictions and wonder if Cade Cunningham will become a villain to New York Knicks fans?

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0:00.0	John, we've got Pistons playoff action on the horizon.
0:02.6	And we've been ramping up and getting ready to talk more and more about this series with the Knicks.
0:06.4	Tomorrow we're going to do our full preview and who wins, how many games, X factors, all that stuff.
0:12.6	But I've noticed a tone around this basketball team that predates even this season, but continues even though they're winning.
0:22.0	I started looking around to see what other people are saying about this series.
0:26.3	ESPN had 10 writers.
0:28.2	All of them picked the Knicks.
0:30.0	Even though the Pistons beat them repeatedly during the regular season.
0:36.0	Three or four times,
0:39.6	including both games at Madison Square Garden.
0:41.4	But we understand playoffs are different animal.
0:43.8	All of them picked the Knicks.
0:46.2	I looked around at ballots to see,
0:47.7	hey, is our guy J.B. Bickers staff?
0:49.5	Does anybody think this guy should win coach of the year?
0:52.6	No, runner up on ESPN and Yahoo.
0:54.1	Well, what about Malik Beasley?
0:58.9	Guy finished one three-pointer shy of the most in the NBA this season,
1:00.1	came off the bench.
1:01.5	He's got to be six man of the year, right?
1:02.4	You would think.
1:06.6	Nobody has put out that they think he should win six man of the year.
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