HOUR 2: Can The Pistons Do The Improbable And Win This Series?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Three o'clock, good to have you with us. |
| 0:01.6 | We'll turn our attention to the Pistons, and I think we all have, how do I put this? |
| 0:07.8 | We have all kind of emotionally cleared the decks. |
| 0:11.5 | I mean, I'm still angry at this team. |
| 0:13.9 | I still resent their performance in this series. |
| 0:18.9 | But I hinted at this yesterday. |
| 0:23.2 | I can't write them off. |
| 0:25.5 | And I know what the historical odds say is you've got a 5% shot of getting this done |
| 0:30.7 | and overcoming a 3-1 deficit. |
| 0:33.1 | I think it's much higher than that. |
| 0:34.9 | I was willing to go 25%. |
| 0:36.8 | And I have reasons. Now, it's going to be |
| 0:39.1 | fun is I brought this up to David pre-show and I didn't even finish the sentence before David |
| 0:44.0 | was just like, no, no, no, no. So we can, we can alternate our points or we can just present our case. |
| 0:51.9 | But I want to give you a five- point reason of hope that while they are certainly not |
| 0:58.2 | favored to do so, I don't think they're done. |
| 1:01.8 | And it would not shock me. |
| 1:05.4 | It would surprise me, but it wouldn't shock me if they came back to win this thing. |
| 1:10.1 | So how do you want to do this? And we'll go through it. And I'm willing to be called an idiot. I don't care. Yeah, I don't think you'll be called an idiot, Mike. You're talking just tonight or the whole thing? I mean, winning this series. The whole thing. Coming back from 3-1. So to duplicate what they did in, what, 2004? |
| 1:27.8 | Three. Yeah. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah, pretty much. |
| 1:30.9 | So I can give you the reasons. |
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