Taking Your Calls On Cavs-Pistons Game 1
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's get to the people. David, we'll go texting a little bit, okay? Let's go to Austin. |
| 0:05.6 | The bat's lead off in the five. Austin, how are you? Brother, what's going on, man? But yeah, |
| 0:11.5 | honestly, Matt, when I called in earlier, I definitely felt some type of way about how you guys were |
| 0:17.4 | giving Cleveland so much, like, love. And, you know, I do see where you're coming |
| 0:22.2 | from, you know, as far as shooting and stuff like that, but like I was telling my friends the other |
| 0:25.7 | day, nobody on that Cleveland team has played winning basketball. Like, they're all great |
| 0:31.3 | players, you know, some Hall of Famers, but honestly, I think with the Pistons defense, they're |
| 0:36.6 | going to distract them, |
| 0:38.1 | especially someone like James Hardin. |
| 0:40.4 | So the only person that I see giving us trouble is Jared Allen, because like you guys said, |
| 0:46.7 | unless Darren gives us a regular season during, you know, it looks bad because, you know, B-ball Paul is still very, you know it looks bad because you know be ball paula still very you know |
| 0:57.4 | instrumental to our success but if durand doesn't step up and give us at least 15 and 10 or |
| 1:03.5 | you know 10 and 12 you know we we may have trouble but i do think the business is going to win this series, though. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm interested, like, hold on, go back to the start of your call. |
| 1:16.3 | So, like, when we were talking about the series and kind of what we were looking for, |
| 1:20.4 | like, what upset you, just so I understand? |
| 1:23.5 | Because, like, it is the second round of the NBA playoffs. |
| 1:25.9 | Like, you're going to play a more credible opponent than that dog you played in round one. |
| 1:31.1 | Right, right, right. |
| 1:32.5 | But I just like you're giving Cleveland too much love because also like you guys said, there's no kings in the East. |
| 1:38.3 | New. |
| 1:38.9 | You know, like everybody in the Eastern Conference, I feel they're on the same level. |
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