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I want to talk a little bit more about the series that we have coming up.

Obviously, like, you know, you guys are going to be game planning most of the week,

watching film, and to a certain extent, you know, if you guys do what you need to do and focus on yourselves i think it'll work out but what are your thoughts i guess specifically like on this pistons team going into the series like what i don't know what what what what do you what do you what do you guys have sort of on the on the series and what do you what do you what prediction you don't have to give predictions but what are you think the series will look like? I mean, I'll say obviously they're physical.

They've shown that in the times we've played. That's a lot of credit to like their coach. I mean, the personnel, but the coach, like J.B. Bickers staff is, um, he's always had that mindset, like you're having a tough team. And he's brought that with him to Detroit.

And obviously, you have Cade, who's been great. And each year he's gotten better and better.

And obviously, this year being his first All-Star, just like well-deserved and everything he's done.

But he's been playing phenomenal. And the supporting cast they have around them, they have guys who go out there who know the roles and go out there and play hard and just do what they have to do to win. And so they had a really good year. I think they surprised a lot of people. But I don't think they surprised themselves. So they knew what they were capable of and they were confident what they were able to do and it shows them the way

they played. So it's definitely going to be tough. It's going to be a battle. We're going to have to

have to see how it goes. It's going to be something that was like, like last year, for example,

that Philly series, it was tough. It was physical. You got to, you know, be ready for when we walk into

Little Cedars Arena, you know, that haven't been in the playoffs for, you know, a little while.

So that place is going to be, you know, electric. It's going to be, you know, a tough hostile

crowds. And, you know, we got to know that walking in and we know the

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