The People Chime In With Their Pistons Expectations
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | To the people, we go to Drey in Southfield, 971. |
| 0:03.7 | Dre, what's going on, pal? |
| 0:06.3 | Not too much. |
| 0:07.2 | I got to pivot and talk about the pistons. |
| 0:09.0 | I was going to do the rivalry, but you talk to NBA. |
| 0:11.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.0 | What is your expectation now? |
| 0:15.5 | Well, I have an ideal scenario. |
| 0:18.1 | Then I have a scenario I can accept. I start what I can accept. I'll be |
| 0:23.1 | okay with winning a playoff series. I'll be okay with that. That's the floor for me. And I can be |
| 0:29.4 | comfortable moving forward. My ideal situation is the Pacers two years ago. Two years ago, |
| 0:36.8 | the Pacers made to the Eastern Conference Finals |
| 0:39.2 | and lost against your Celtics. |
| 0:41.0 | But they were so good during that regular season |
| 0:43.7 | that their front office invested and traded for Pascal Seyakum. |
| 0:47.6 | Yes. |
| 0:48.3 | Not only did they help them get to the Eastern Conference Finals that year, |
| 0:53.7 | you saw the impact the following season |
| 0:55.7 | last year, where to me, arguably, if Halliburton stays healthy, they might even win the whole |
| 0:59.9 | thing. So my ideal scenario is to be the patience two years ago, take multiple steps forward, |
| 1:06.3 | be good enough where maybe Langdon is willing to try to make an acquisition and get that all-star player to parricade as sky's the limit. I love it. I absolutely love it. I absolutely love it. Yeah, I'm with you. But you know what it is, Dray? Because much like the Tigers and why I never took them serious as a World Series team or the wings, when they basically told their locker locker room we're not good enough, we're not doing anything. |
| 1:30.1 | It's the same thing here. |
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