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The Valenti Show

HOUR 3: Pistons Continued, Who Said It?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico kick off the second half of the show continuing their conversation on the Pistons and Cade Cunningham before the guys play this week's version of "Who Said it?" to wrap the hour.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, Odyssey.com, rewind, you missed anything. You know, we started the show and it was a little bit of that debate about Cade's extension.

0:06.0

If you want to go get it, you can pay him. I'm just not sure of the wisdom when you're a 14-win basketball team who, the roster that has been the put around him simply doesn't fit.

0:22.8

And my issue with Kaye, while his three point shooting improved

0:26.1

this year to a 35% clip, he's a 32.5% career shooter from Deep.

0:35.1

Do I want to pay that 270 million

0:37.8

after watching the NBA finals last night

0:40.0

where the two teams shot a combined 73 pointers.

0:46.2

This is a Pistons roster that features a center who can't shoot,

0:49.4

a power forward who can't shoot,

0:51.1

a top five pick who can't shoot, and a point guard who can't shoot, and then

0:54.8

Cade who largely can't shoot but got a little better last year.

1:00.3

So when you look at it, if you think Cade can be an all-M-BA player, he can be a Kyrie, he can be a Jason Tatum, a Jaylin Brown, he can be a,

1:11.0

one of them first-team all-MBA guys,, Aluka, you pay him. I think I have rights to have doubts.

1:17.0

And I'm not mad if they pay him and keep him.

1:20.0

I mean if I'm Trajan Langdon and I look at this thing I've got one guy that I know beyond shadow of a doubt

1:25.4

Has potential to be an all-MBA player there's not another guy here that does

1:30.4

But it would be every reason I would go, okay, wait a second.

1:33.0

Am I going to pay this guy 50 a year?

1:36.0

And what if he's really a 32.5% 3-point shooter?

1:41.0

And now I'm locked into this. What you don't want is to have your, the

1:46.4

Detroit version of Trey Young, a guy who Atlanta kind of felt pressured into

1:51.2

resigning, and now, Ben, he's not gonna, you realize he's not gonna

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