Valenti Is VERY Confident In The Pistons Going Into Tonight's Game
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hour number two, good to have you with us. |
| 0:02.0 | If you're looking for draft talk, we just wrapped about 45 good minutes of it. Odyssey Rewind. Let's get to game two with the Pistons. This is where I'm at. I don't know where you're at. That's the fun of this. I expect you to play your best game of the season. I expect you to come out, light a garbage can on fire, and crack this team over to head with it. This is a league game. |
| 0:24.7 | When you are... I expect you to come out, light a garbage can on fire, and crack this team over to head with it. |
| 0:22.0 | This is a league game. |
| 0:24.4 | When you are the one seed and you lose game one, which is unfathomable, look, teams that lose game one lose 80% of the series. |
| 0:33.3 | Now, that's kind of a misnomer a little bit. |
| 0:36.2 | It's not totally accurate. |
| 0:37.6 | Is that, yeah, lower-seated teams lose series. |
| 0:40.3 | And they usually lose game one. |
| 0:42.1 | My point is, if you want me to be confident, if you want me to feel like you are the better |
| 0:48.2 | team, you come out tonight and you win this game with a level of authority, with a level |
| 0:53.6 | of game control. |
| 0:54.5 | Because if you don't, forget about losing. |
| 0:57.6 | If this is a dog fight tonight in a game where Orlando, these are men, not machines, |
| 1:03.7 | they've already come to Detroit and its mission accomplished. |
| 1:06.2 | They got a game. |
| 1:07.4 | If this thing is a game with three minutes to go in the fourth quarter, make no mistake about it. You're in deep duty. So I want to know, like that to me, I expect the Pistons played her best game in the season. Yeah. I mean, you kind of heard the confidence in Jalen Dern as he talked to the media yesterday and he didn't guarantee a victory but pretty much said |
| 1:28.6 | look we're going to come out here what you said we're going to come out here we're going to show |
| 1:32.7 | up this team has to Mike because you're right if you're Orlando you're going back we're |
| 1:39.1 | best case you're one one and you stole the series now you get to play all the games in Orlando and hopefully you can end this thing in six. But if you're the Pistons, you have to win. This is a must win because I don't think you want to go down 0-2 to Orlando. That's like saying you don't want to have a piano dropped on your head, Rico. Of course you don't want to go down 02. |
| 2:01.4 | No, no, no, I'm saying, but that's what I'm saying. |
| 2:03.2 | Because I was kind of teetering like, is this really a must win? Yes. Yeah, it is. Because you don't want to use must win all the time. My point is the comments we had after game one where we said, look, the magic aren't physically intimidated. They have four of the top six players. They're not a typical |
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