Coming up on Locked-on NBA Daily. The Knicks lost to the Pistons again last night, raising more questions about whether they can win the East. Does any team face more pressure than the one in New York? Meanwhile, the Nuggets continue to slide in the West standings. At what point do we sound the alarms? And finally, we debate some specific ideas that the NBA has to curb tanking, Locked on NBA starts now.

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Today we're talking about why the Knicks need to make the finals this season, whether

or not the regular season even matters for the Denver Nuggets, and the NBA's need to make the finals this season, whether or not the regular season

even matters for the Denver Nuggets, and the NBA's proposals to fix tanking. We're doing it with the help of lockdown's local experts. I have two of the best with me, as always from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt Moore. You know, there's always tanking suggestions, and I just have to ask, why don't we have more solutions that involve the GMs having to absolutely embarrass themselves? I want them in one of those Simon says segments, like at halftime. I just want them to be berated and demeaned as much as possible. If you demean yourself the most, you get the number one pick. From the Locked on Bulls podcast, he's also a Bears and Bulls creator for Bleacher Report. It's Hayes. Since the players don't take, I still think that there should be a tournament of the GMs playing a bat one-on-one tournament to earn the right to get the number one overall pick. The idea of shame coming into play. I like it. Maybe raise a banner for every time you've tanked. Maybe that's something that they need to do as well. Speaking of shame, the Knicks lost to the Pistons last night for the fourth time this season. We previewed this game on yesterday's show. We talked about how important it was for the Knicks to try to get over the hump against the Pistons. Well, they didn't. The Pistons were without Jalen Duren. They were without Isaiah Stewart. Didn't matter. Pistons still crushed them. They were the far more physical team in this game and that was the issue. Here's

more on the loss from Lockdown Knicks. The Knicks are just basically trying to completely

mash a square peg into a round hole. It is the most frustrating thing to watch. They keep playing the Detroit Pistons game. You're not going to beat them at this game. And you might come here and say, you know, in the comments, actually, are you worried that, you know, the Nix just can't beat the pistons. The Pistons have their number. The more physical team. It could be the case that the Knicks just don't have the physicality to match up to this team.

We know that if they play this style, they're going to get blown out every time.

What you didn't do is just play five shooters.

You have to mostly counteract them with a different style.

Stylistically, if you try to approach anything like what they're doing,

you are going to have this result over and over and over and over again.

The Knicks have a roster that is equipped to make this team struggle.

So, Hayes, I think you see XJ voicing the frustration of a lot of nix fans after that loss there but he also makes

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