Hearing From The People On The Pistons' Big Win Last Night
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A plus start to the series. Pistons 1-0. All the peripherals were perfect. You design a game in a lab that the Pistons are going to play A-plus. You saw it last night. The question just becomes how sustainable is it? Because I still, I'm like RICO. I couldn't believe it was 93-all. I'm like, you kicked the hell out of this team all night. How are we here? David Tex, what's the early returns there? Where are people at with it all? It was tied because basketball is a set of runs. You can't be perfect. The whole game, Cleveland is a good shooting team. Take the win and move on. Someone else brings up the shooting for Cleveland says Cleveland's players, I'm sorry, Cleveland has a great shooting. |
| 0:39.5 | The great three-point shooting, you mentioned that Mike yesterday before the game. |
| 0:43.0 | That's why they kept in it because they can shoot the three very well. |
| 0:46.8 | And this person says Cleveland's players complaining about not getting fouls in a playoff game. |
| 0:51.1 | It's hilarious to me. |
| 0:52.1 | Everyone knows the refereeing in the playoff season allows for more physical style of basketball. |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah, except it doesn't because you shot 40 free throws. |
| 1:01.2 | You shot 20 more free throws. |
| 1:03.5 | And guess what's going to happen if you lose a game? |
| 1:05.7 | You're going to complain. |
| 1:06.9 | That's playoffs. |
| 1:08.0 | I mean, it's a dance as old as time. |
| 1:10.1 | Phil Jackson was legendary, working the media, working the refs. That's playoffs. I mean, it's a dance as old as time. Phil Jackson was legendary, working the media, working the refs. |
| 1:14.6 | That's all done. |
| 1:15.3 | And J.B. Bicker's staff is 100% right. |
| 1:18.4 | He knows what Mitchell's doing. |
| 1:20.1 | It's messaging. |
| 1:21.6 | That's it. |
| 1:22.6 | Now, you're right. |
| 1:23.4 | I mean, they had to come up with a rule because Coach K would walk out at halftime with the referees at Duke games. |
| 1:30.9 | And lo and behold, the next half. |
| 1:33.3 | It flipped. |
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