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The Valenti Show

Valenti: THIS Is What The Pistons "Must Do" In NBA Draft

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Valenti starts off the second hour of the show by explaining what the Pistons need to do in the NBA Draft tomorrow and Thursday.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, three o'clock. Good to have you with us. We did open with a little Tiger talk, two ways. A. Scott Harris,

0:07.6

MLB Network, or talking with the play-by-play guys. How about talking with the beat writers? How about going on with our

0:13.9

morning show? How about answering a few questions? Now I've got some audio from

0:17.8

this sit-down he did. That's rather upsetting to me, but I'm saving it because I'm

0:22.4

I don't want to be angry especially about a

0:24.5

team that you're not watching but please listen it's free so I have RICO and I on this particular issue see the world completely differently, which is fine.

0:39.3

Because this is to me not something about right and wrong. It's not. I think it's a waste of time if RICO and I argue about this.

0:46.2

This is about you guys. And it's about two human beings who couldn't be further apart on the Pistons draft tomorrow night.

0:54.9

So we're calling it a draft decree.

0:58.0

Rico's even dressed up in a house of the dragons reset and he's going to the town square to send a raven.

1:05.5

Here's what I think the Pistons must do in this draft.

1:09.2

Must.

1:11.2

I think they have to swing out of their shoes. I think you have to take the biggest

1:17.8

wildest swing you can on projection and the player you draft is either working next to Kenny in three years

1:27.1

or he's an all NBA player. I don't care how Langdon is doing it. Lord knows we don't have a coach. I couldn't ask him what he would like.

1:36.1

You have to draft a player whose physical tools are so immense that if it works, it's Janus. If it works. It's Pascal Siaacum. I'm just highlighting two players that were absolute projects right?

1:49.0

I am I want to take an 18 or 19 year old player and I'm not going to play him this year.

1:55.9

I'll probably barely play him in year two and I've got to nurture them along to where they can

2:01.7

become this explosive weapon or they end up playing

2:06.6

lawn darts in their backyard because they suck at actual basketball or

2:11.0

RICO is at the other end of the...

2:14.0

Yeah, because at that thing, Mike, when you keep just drafting players who are 18 and 19 year olds

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