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The Valenti Show

Hearing From The People On The Pistons Season Ending

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The people chime in on the Pistons' loss last night.

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0:00.0

I don't know why Sasser's in an NBA playoff game.

0:03.0

There's that.

0:04.2

All right, let's go to the people.

0:05.9

We'll go to Albert.

0:07.0

He's up next.

0:07.8

Al, how you doing, buddy?

0:10.4

Been better, guys.

0:11.4

How are you?

0:12.0

Good.

0:12.4

What's on your mind?

0:14.7

So my problem with this team is, is we said it, I remember calling in right after the

0:19.8

trade deadline.

0:24.2

I understand Trajan wanted to get a feel for how this team would fare in the playoffs, but you can't possibly be an NBA GM and look at

0:31.2

this roster and see guys like Kevin Herder, who you traded for at the trade deadline, and he became a

0:36.6

DNP. Guys like Giovante Green that contributed in the regular Hurter, who you traded for at the trade deadline, and he became a DMP.

0:44.7

Guys like Javante Green that contributed in the regular season did not see the floor in the second round of the playoffs.

0:46.0

Guys like this are supposed to be contributing to playoff success.

0:49.3

I don't understand how this team saw that and was like, yeah, let's go, let's go.

0:53.7

I'll tell you how. Because they

0:56.0

weren't trying to win it. It's as simple as that. Trajan Langdon wanted to evaluate, which is a

1:01.9

total waste of time to people, like to people who spend money or time or emotion. But it's his right to do

1:07.8

so. But Albert, here's the other problem. Those players seduce this team in the regular season, which is so faulty considering

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