Hi, welcome on to part two of our East 15 and 60 mailbag.

Still have nine teams to get to.

And we'll get right to discussing the Detroit Pistons, Danny.

The Pistons are 45 and 18, but 12 and 7 in their last 19.

Fourth, including the Glass Net rating, plus 7.5 for 100 possessions, 11th on offense.

The defense still projected to be the one seed in the east per BPI despite their recent swoon and they are going to make the playoffs.

Yeah, still a pretty good chance at being the one seed.

They're projected to win four more games.

Then the Celtics as of now, that despite having lost four straight as of this recording.

Let's start with this one here.

Jake Brown says, are the Pistons broken?

No, I don't think they're broken.

I think that a lot of what they're doing is, you know, a lot of what they've done is real.

But I do believe that the idea of them being the best team in the Eastern Conference,

which they were statistically

until somewhat recently, that is probably a little bit over their skis. And we've gotten kind

of to this point, you and I separately, but also together, where it's like, you know, where the

pistons, if we're just ranking in terms of the quality of team in the healthy version of the

team, the reasonably healthy version team, I think the pistons are probably the third or quality of team in the healthy version of the team, the reasonably healthy

version of the team, I think the pistons are probably the third or fourth best team in these two conference. There's no shame in that, but that, and to me, that is not a broken team in any way, shape, before. No, I wouldn't say that. It's, you would hope that they would be peaking a little bit more. Now, they've had some injury issues. They're three and four. So they had won three straight before losing four straight. I think also when you're saying that

they're broken, part of that is just seeing cow offensively hopeless. They looked against the San

Antonio Spurs. And the Spurs are probably a team that uniquely can match up with the Pistons'

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