WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.519 Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, 2 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.679 I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I 3 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.280 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.520 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.240 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football fun everybody. I think that 6 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:40.640 at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday. 7 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.799 Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same thing 8 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.759 for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play 9 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:56.359 to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a 10 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.840 great thing about sports. You play to win. I don't care if you 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.959 don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start telling 12 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:17.599 me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the math. That is 13 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.439 right. Good morning, everybody. Dennis Fifthian in for Matt Shepherd. On 14 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:30.000 this Friday, This Friday, heading into the holiday weekend, heading into the 15 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.439 Memorial weekend, Friday, May the twenty fourth, allys Fridays. Like a 16 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:40.400 lot of people, it's my favorite day of the week, and heading into 17 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:44.480 a holiday weekend where you know, I know, I would guess if you're 18 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.640 listening right now, you probably are heading to work. Did you get up 19 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:53.319 and head out to the lake you go fishing heading into the Memorial weekend because 20 00:01:53.319 --> 00:02:00.439 you're off, maybe, but the most people getting the Monday off and it 21 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:07.200 just just feels good. It makes you think about you know, some of 22 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:08.680 the I don't know which countries do it, but you know they say, 23 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:14.199 you know you only work forget the five day work week, four days. 24 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:19.080 Everybody's neither their head, Yeah, four days. People driving right now listening 25 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:23.520 saying the five days I worked seven days. So we're going to keep your 26 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.840 company, get you into this weekend. You're a sports fan, you know. 27 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:35.759 Last night rang the Bell and Memorial Weekend with a little bit of stuff 28 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:44.479 for everyone. If I'm thinking about what is very top of mind for me 29 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:54.240 and I'm thinking for you. It was the Lions and Dan Campbell who talked 30 00:02:54.240 --> 00:03:01.960 at OTAs yesterday and he was asked to question, it's the question of the 31 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:07.759 day. I'll be answering it myself an hour from right now at seven to 32 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.439 one. Of course, you could jump in and answer it is it super 33 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:20.879 Bowl or bust? For the Detroit Lions this upcoming season. Dan Campbell interrupted, 34 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.280 I mean he answered the question, but he interrupted the question saying he 35 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:30.360 doesn't see bust, he sees Super Bowl. It was a fine way to 36 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:37.400 answer the question. I think about this time last year, I was asking 37 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:44.800 this question with Michigan, with the Michigan football team, was it national championship 38 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:50.520 or bust? And Michigan fans agreed that it was championship or bust. Now 39 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:55.120 college and pro, there's some obvious differences with Michigan. Certainly, they had 40 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:02.639 been to the two previous college football Playoffs and it took him a while to 41 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.360 you know, they had the long streak where they couldn't beat Ohio State. 42 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:11.439 They had to deal with all the jokes that they hadn't won the Big Ten 43 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:15.759 since they moved the since they had a championship game and it was in India, 44 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:17.079 they had to deal with, hey, you know where Indianapolis is at. 45 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:20.319 But so they were able to do that, slay that dragon, but 46 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:26.720 they lost the TCU in the College Football Playoff. The first year they lost 47 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.639 to Georgia, I think got people know it was a pretty good Georgia team, 48 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:33.480 great Georgia team, but Michigan was favored to be TCU. That was 49 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:39.000 a chance to get to the national title game, and they say they blew 50 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:44.560 it, didn't do it. So coming back when they had JJ McCarthy and 51 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:48.319 Blake korm you go down the list of all the they were set, they 52 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:56.959 were ready. They had ten players out of the transfer portal, and it 53 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.399 felt like if it wasn't going to belast year at the Ohouse, State game 54 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:06.000 was at home, they had another super easy non conference schedule. If it 55 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:11.199 wasn't going to be last year for Michigan, there was a question of, 56 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.480 well, is it ever gonna happen or certainly now you know, I didn't 57 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.519 feel like with this group, although JJ could have come back for his senior 58 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:20.279 season, so you could have made that argument, and some people did, 59 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:30.519 but the other guys, you just it was it was National Championship or bust 60 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:36.439 last year for Michigan, But so is it Super Bowl or bust for the 61 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:40.759 Lions. Dan Campbell doesn't see bust. He sees Super Bowl. As he 62 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:45.680 was standing up at the podium with his grit hat on, we'll get into 63 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:51.680 that. Pistons have a new man at the top calling the shots, Trajan 64 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:59.240 Langdon the Alaskan Assassin for those of you that can go back and remember when 65 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:06.000 he played at Due. Not many ballplayers coming out of Alaska, but Langdon 66 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:11.759 did, and he went to Duke and then you know, a couple of 67 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:17.399 years in the pros, then overseas and then you know, getting involved on 68 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.759 the front office side of things. He'd been down to New Orleans. But 69 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:29.480 he is going to be the next president of basketball operations. But what he 70 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:34.000 is going to be is the guy with the final say and personnel decisions, 71 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:40.120 and that's the top job. And so this is going to be the guy 72 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:44.879 that will either you know, Troy Weaver has been calling the shots for the 73 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:50.000 past few years. It will be Langdon now for the next few seasons, 74 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:54.800 and we'll see what he will do. I'll I'll give you a couple ideas, 75 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.879 you know, for the you know, you think about if you're a 76 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:04.319 Pistons fan coming off a season where he only won fourteen games and the bitter 77 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:13.240 disappointment in almost every area for the team, and you look to this season. 78 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:15.040 In the draft, there was there was nothing. It was it's called 79 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.519 you know, one of the worst I get the worst draft ever. And 80 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.160 you know, obviously they didn't win it, and they you know, fell 81 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:26.480 to five. So not only was it a terrible draft, but you wouldn't 82 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.600 have minded it wouldn't have uh have minded grabbing that number one pick. But 83 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.759 they fall to five, which you know, felt like another loss for this 84 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:41.399 team. So now they sit here, there's not great prospects. But oh 85 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.720 if if you sometimes you find that Brad Holmes was coming in, it was 86 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:53.240 a for the Lions. Honestly, that felt like a rinse and repeat type 87 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:57.839 situation. I've seen a lot of general managers over the years come in for 88 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:00.759 Detroit and the fans, and that's what you do. You're like, yeah, 89 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.879 we got a new guy. Let's put our you know, full faith 90 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.839 behind him. Maybe this will be the guy. Oh, Bob Quinn, 91 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:13.360 you know he's the guy. And he was not the guy obviously, Bob 92 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:18.759 Quinn. It did not work out, but Holmes I was. So you 93 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:22.399 know, there's when you get somebody new like that, there is at least 94 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:26.600 with the change part, you feel like, you know, maybe a chance 95 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:31.120 we'll ship through what his most important moves are, at least that we see 96 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:37.200 on the surface. That talked about yesterday that these teams you look at the 97 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.480 four teams that are remaining in the playoffs, and you you look at their 98 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:46.799 roster, you look at their front office, you look at how they have 99 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:52.159 been able to get where they're at and has it just been sitting back and 100 00:08:52.000 --> 00:09:01.759 getting lucky. In some cases it is Minnesota of the year that they get 101 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:03.679 the number one pick. The last time, I mean a couple of years 102 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:09.519 before they got kat Karl Anthony Towns and that didn't look like it was really 103 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.720 gonna be all of that. But you know, they get the ant man 104 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.600 Anthony Edwards, and that was lucky, but they did have to take him. 105 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:22.399 There was it wasn't a slam dunk. There were a lot of people 106 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:31.440 saying, hey, take LaMelo Ball in that draft, and they didn't. 107 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.840 So that was part of it. But we'll get into a little bit of 108 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:41.799 that actually straight ahead, and we'll cover what happened last night on the ice 109 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.679 and the hardwood in the playoffs. 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I'm answering that question at seven oh one. Good 137 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.679 morning, Dennis Fithian Here, Axes and Bros. And the Michigan Sports Network. 138 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:31.039 I'm gonna run through what happened last night in sports. I got a 139 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:37.799 bone to pick with the ESPN. They it's nice today after Dan Campbell spoke 140 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:46.519 yesterday. Now they they pick a team Sports Center does and they picked popular 141 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.799 teams a lot of times. Right now the Lions are are are a popular 142 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:54.840 team obviously, and Campbell spoke yesterday, so they're talking a lot about the 143 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.840 Lions. But they put up a graph and you know, it has the 144 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:05.000 Lions win total at ten and a half and then at the bottom and then 145 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:09.279 it says they've got eleven and one odds to win the Super Bowl. And 146 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.000 at the bottom of that it says the best title odds in forty five years, 147 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:15.600 which is a little bit of an attention grabber. You're like, wow, 148 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.639 because the Lions said, oh you go at ninety three, ninety one, 149 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.519 they had one, they had won one playoff games. It's fifty seven. 150 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.759 We knew all of these numbers. They're ingrained in our brain. It 151 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:31.799 is a relief last year when they won one, not only two. I 152 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:33.879 mean, you know the whole story there. But so when I saw the 153 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:39.879 forty five years, I was thinking, you know, that's interesting. If 154 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.600 somebody asked me one with this is the best title odds since when, I 155 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:48.240 think I would have said nineteen fifty seven. I don't know even know if 156 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.480 they had odds back at nineteen fifty seven. I thought about the same thing 157 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.799 they have odds forty five years ago, but they do because I see them. 158 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:03.639 They often talk about the Jets and Joe nama Is guarantee, and you 159 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.240 know what sort of underdog the Jets were, or they were their double digit 160 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.159 underdog, and that's what made the guarantee by Joe Namas so famous. So 161 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:16.120 I get that part. But then I was just thinking myself because I was 162 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:22.720 a young, very young kid in at nineteen seventy nine, and I would 163 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:28.000 have I was a Lions fan. But so I'm thinking with the Lions. 164 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:33.440 Was I thinking about the Super Bowl back in the late seventies for the Lions. 165 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:41.240 Absolutely not. Now, the Lions went two and fourteen in nineteen seventy 166 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.639 nine, you'd say, well, you know, it's seventy eight. They 167 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:52.600 must have had a hell of a season to have the the best odds until 168 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.120 twenty twenty three. Well, no, they went They went seven to nine 169 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:05.320 in seventy eight, seventy seven, they went six in eight the whole seventies. 170 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.759 I'm sorry. In nineteen seventy either the Lions beat the Cowboys like five 171 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:20.600 nothing or I'm sorry they lost to the Cowboys of five nothing in the playoffs 172 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.279 and so if it would have said seventy one, that said coming off a 173 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:28.320 playoff appearance, all right, But the rest of the seventies it was nothing. 174 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:35.519 But you know, seven wins, six wins the seventy nineteen, which 175 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:41.600 is interesting because it was two and fourteen. It was a famous song that 176 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.159 made its way around the Motor City after that by by Spider Man. Allen 177 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:52.840 to the song by Queen as Spider Man said, he was sitting on his 178 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:58.039 seat something. I'm trying to remember the lyrics there, Spider Man sitting on 179 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:08.600 his seat. But the line was last year was two and fourteen, but 180 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:12.679 this is the year for New Orleans. Now that rhymed when Spider Man said, 181 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:15.399 it didn't seem like a really rhyme to roll off the tongue there for 182 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:19.000 me when I was rolling it out. Maybe it's just because it's early in 183 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:23.440 the morning, but I don't know, I have I'm sending that off to 184 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:30.200 ESPN. I'm questioning their odds. Now, if they would have said the 185 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:36.360 Lions in a ninety one, you know they lost the conference finals, or 186 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:45.320 when they lost actually, you know, the winning against the Cowboys. Remember 187 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:49.759 when they got that one playoff win for the first time. So it's fifty 188 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:55.519 seven. A lot of people thought and it was the next for the foreseeable 189 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:59.679 future, it was going to be the Lions and the Cowboys. This is 190 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.039 it. Look at the young talent on these teams. Well they were kind 191 00:17:03.079 --> 00:17:07.240 of right. The Cowboys would go on and we win three Super Bowls, 192 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.880 but not the Lions. So I could have seen if they were saying that 193 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:22.960 in ninety four ninety five that there was there was something there for Detroit ninety 194 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.119 two. I guess that's I think, the best Super Bowl odds, But 195 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.599 you know, so I'm questioning it. That's what I have to say for 196 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:36.000 ESPN best title odds in forty five years. I know there were less teams 197 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.440 and everything else, but it just didn't make sense to me as my mind 198 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:45.319 works through it all right. Last night in the playoffs, she had Game 199 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:51.160 two in the NBA in the Eastern Conference Finals with Indiana going into Boston. 200 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:55.960 Boston had won. That had bugaboo, one of those things in Game two's 201 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:59.839 where they were losing no matter who they were playing in the heat, and 202 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.079 you just go through it. And so Indiana, after the way they played 203 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.839 played in Game one and threw Game one away and only had themselves to blame, 204 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.519 and thinking, well, however you want to look at it, I 205 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:15.160 felt pretty good about their chances to steal the game. But you know, 206 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:18.359 Boston with a twenty zero round of the first half, it looked like it 207 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.400 was going to be over as I watched it. But I watched this game 208 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.319 up to halftime. The Pacers Pascal Siakam, they got it down to a 209 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.519 half dozen. It was a six point game at the half, but then 210 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:40.039 in the third quarter it was mostly Boston, but the Pacers did inch within 211 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:45.160 a bucket there the third but Tyrese Halliburton got hurt and then that's pretty much 212 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:49.519 it. And that is going to be the main storyline for Game three. 213 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:57.000 Halliburton and his hamstring and his availability in Game three, that is the big 214 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:02.279 question and the series. Of course, if Halliburton, they might lose anyways 215 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:07.319 and might get swept anyways. But if Halliburton is out, I would think 216 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:15.240 that that would be a likely scenario. OH one twenty six, one ten 217 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.839 the final sixteen point victory for the Celtics. They're up to to oh On 218 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:26.240 the other side, it will be a game two. MAVs te Wolves Tonight 219 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:32.920 eight thirty in Minnesota on the ice, you had Dallas and Edmonton first game 220 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.039 of the Western Finals. Nobody listening right now stayed up to watch the end 221 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:44.319 of that one, although it was riveting. I watched the highlights today and 222 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:49.000 it ends up going Edmonton's way, three to two, double overtime. But 223 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:56.160 that's a hell of a game. With Edmonton now sitting here, they've got 224 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:03.079 so much firepower, but they've had this firepower, but the fire power is 225 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:10.039 being helped by a subtimely goaltending now and another edition of a local product, 226 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:14.200 Zach Hyman, who they signed as a free agent, who leads the NHL 227 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:18.519 Playoffs with the twelve goals. Hymen had a goal drive title, of course. 228 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:21.359 I mean if I asked you to say, hey, who are the 229 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:25.240 three players that scored the goals for the Edmonton Oilers, you'd say, probably 230 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:29.559 Hymen, probably Dry Title, and probably Connor McDavid, And you would be 231 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.119 right on all of that. McDavid, with thirty two seconds into the double 232 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:40.640 overtime scores he's about on the door step, right in the slot. When 233 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:48.079 Bouchard has been excellent for Edmonton, is over on the right side in the 234 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.359 corner. He throws the puck right front and McDavid is sitting there all alone. 235 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:56.160 That's going to be a scary proposition as a goaltender, Connor McDavid and 236 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:03.920 he just he shoveled it the passed from Bouchard. No chance there for Ottinger 237 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:10.359 winner for Edmonton. They're up one to zero. Two posts for the Stars 238 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.759 in overtime. And if you're looking for a key, how about five for 239 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:18.599 five of the penalty kill there for the Edmonton Oilers in game one tonight Game 240 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.960 two of the Eastern Finals. Rangers they got shut out in Game one eight 241 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:30.720 o'clock face off at Madison Square Garden and the Florida Panthers. They're going to 242 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:33.640 take a two to zero lead there. You're up to speed there. The 243 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:42.640 Pistons have a new guy calling the shots and we will go over what the 244 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:51.240 first order of business will be for Trajan Langdon, your new president of basketball 245 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:55.680 operations for the Detroit Pistons. Straight ahead here on x'es and Bros. And 246 00:21:55.720 --> 00:22:00.519 the Michigan Sports Network Huge here for the Michigan High School Athletic Association. You 247 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:04.880 can stay up to date on the latest from Lansing twenty four to seven at 248 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:15.200 mhsa A dot com at mhsa A on Twitter and MHSAA on Facebook. 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And I 265 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.160 have just learned something. You know. We have the ability for you to 266 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:00.920 of course call in on the Meyer Hotline, and we also have the availability 267 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:06.960 for you to participate the via the text. And this is now my fifth 268 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:10.119 show that I've been filling in. And I say, hey, text sports 269 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:15.759 radio to twenty one thousand. Well, the last time I was in I 270 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:22.880 just tested it out myself and I texted the sports radio and I was like, 271 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:26.079 hey, what's up Ben? You know it's then, you know, 272 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:26.839 And then Ben didn't say anything to me, and I thought, well, 273 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:32.079 maybe Bench just you know, he's you know, not into just being a 274 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.880 friendly via the text or with me. You know, I said it was 275 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:38.240 me. You didn't say anything. But when I say text sports radio to 276 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:47.200 twenty one thousand, sports radio is one word. And my problem is when 277 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:52.599 I tried it twice, it automatically corrected to sports radio and put a space 278 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:57.359 in there. Sports radio one word to twenty one thousand. You can get 279 00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:03.079 in that way, and hey, Ben is very friendly and he's not ignoring 280 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:10.519 your attacks. You just have to put sports radio in as one word, 281 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:14.680 so try it out. That is something that has me kind of fired up, 282 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:21.400 and that just happened over the last five minutes. Now the question of 283 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:25.680 the day, and we're going to dive into it head first. Coming up 284 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:27.920 at seven to one. I'll answer the question. It's about the Lions where 285 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:33.200 Dan Campbell yesterday was asked by the assembled media whoever it was, Hey Dan, 286 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:40.359 do you see this year as super Bowl or bust? And Campbell with 287 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:44.480 five coffees in him, a couple shots of whatever else he puts in those 288 00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:48.960 coffees and the hat with grit on it, stared down that reporter and said 289 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:52.400 he doesn't see bust, he sees super Bowl, which is a very nice 290 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:57.759 answer by Dan Campbell. But we want your answer and I'll give you a 291 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:03.920 myrie coming up at seven one. But there is some news with the Detroit 292 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:08.720 Pistons. Yes, they are still organization. They do plan on playing the 293 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:14.880 upcoming season. They do own the number five pick and the twenty twenty four 294 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:22.960 upcoming NBA draft. As we all know, they finished with the worst record, 295 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:26.119 but it fell to five, which felt very Pistons like with how things 296 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:33.640 are going. But the Pistons hired a new guy, a new leader, 297 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:40.559 Trajan Langdon comes in for the Pistons. According to reports, they are set 298 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:45.880 to hire Trajan Langdon as president of basketball Operations. Now I am going to 299 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:52.079 work through what I think his first order of business is now, you might 300 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:56.160 ask, and I asked this question myself when I saw that they were hiring 301 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:03.440 Langdon as president of basketball operations and that he had been the Pelicans general manager 302 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:08.640 since twenty nineteen, I thought, why would the general manager of the Pelicans 303 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:19.319 want to leave their situation and come to Detroit? And that's a good question, 304 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:25.759 patting myself on the back. Good question. Well, Langdon was the 305 00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:30.640 general manager, but he did not have final say in personnel decisions. That 306 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:36.759 was David Griffin, who was the Calves, a guy calling the shot. 307 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:41.319 I don't know exactly what his title was with the Calves, but that's in 308 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:47.799 New Orleans. He was the one, which was a pretty easy decision, 309 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:55.599 drafting Zion Williamson. And that's why you want to be the guy that's calling 310 00:27:55.680 --> 00:28:00.640 the shots. And Langdon is going to do that and we say, well, 311 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:02.880 is this a good hire. I'm not sure if it's a good higher. 312 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:07.559 The Pistons are in a real tough spot with the roster that they have 313 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:14.480 in you know, last year at this time I looked at it and said, 314 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:17.200 yeah, I know, they got a young roster and you just want 315 00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:22.920 to take incremental steps and prepare yourself and try to surround Kate Cunningham with some 316 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:27.559 good players. And it's not like they were hit with injuries or anything. 317 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:30.400 Last year. They had their starting five what you would say, not a 318 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:36.160 bad starting five, maybe not a playoff team, but a team that you 319 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:38.039 know, you thought they might have something going for them, but no, 320 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:44.279 they didn't. They they don't play well. They didn't play defense at all, 321 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:48.359 they didn't shoot really well. And you know, in their their head 322 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:57.839 coach didn't see particularly interested in in coaching, which is going to be a 323 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:03.480 pretty big deal when you know you're sitting there on the sideline and you're Monte 324 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:08.960 Williams, who the Pistons brought in last year to be their head coach and 325 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:12.720 they gave him seventy six million dollars. Now, this is the first order 326 00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:17.599 of business for Langdon. I think that if you're listening right now. And 327 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:18.519 I said that to you, you'd say, what do you think is first 328 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:23.960 order of businesses? You'd say, fire Troy Weaver and then fire Bonnie Williams. 329 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:32.519 Broom. These guys out start fresh that way. And I agree with 330 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:37.240 that. I don't know how Troy Weaver is staying around he is out. 331 00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:42.559 I would I will put all of the money I have on Weaver being out 332 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:47.359 now. No, Williams is interesting. You know, it's not a cap 333 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:55.039 situation. The Piston's just oh, Monty Williams sixty million dollars more after you 334 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:57.000 know, the the six year, seventy six million dollar deal. And he 335 00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:00.839 could say, that's a hell of a lot of money to you eat if 336 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:07.039 you're Tom Gorris, although a report in the Athletics says that if Langdon wants 337 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:15.440 to move on, that Gorris will eat that money if Langdon decides to make 338 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:22.119 a coaching change. So I don't think that Langdon is flying up to Detroit 339 00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.279 thinking the money's gone automatically. I think he's going to have an open eye. 340 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.000 Would I would think that he would have an open mind. I would 341 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:34.279 meet with money Williams. There's the perception if Langdon was asking me, what's 342 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.079 up with you? What do you think of money Williams. I would say, 343 00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:41.440 it looks like he just took the Pistons job just because they offered him 344 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:48.920 seventy six million dollars. He even said something to that effect when he was 345 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:52.079 hired and he had fired by Phoenix. It felt like, you know, 346 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:57.440 after all of this, that he was just perfectly content to live his life 347 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:04.240 as a multi millionaire and chill. But the Pistons said, hey, how 348 00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:11.119 about seventy six million guaranteed? Who say a no to that? Basically what 349 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.359 money Williams said. But then he coached like he had all the security of 350 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:19.279 the world and not a care in the world about winning basketball games. And 351 00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:23.680 you can't have that as a head coach. You need somebody driven. You 352 00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:29.960 need someone despite you know, making seventy six million, that he is just 353 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:38.359 grind it. It's everything consumed with being a head coach and moving this thing 354 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:41.759 forward. And Monty Williams did not seem like he had any of that, 355 00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:48.720 any drive. He was reluctant to make lineup changes. He stayed with Killian 356 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.319 Hayes for some reason. What every single person that I've ever spoken with or 357 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.599 talked to that watched the Pistons and said, I don't know why Ice, 358 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.599 you know, playing Killian Hayes like he is. And and then finally, 359 00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:06.039 you know, he finally made some moves at the trading deadline. Move some 360 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.279 guys out, move some guys in. But it's totally unspectacular, terrible as 361 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:12.519 a matter of fact, that's the way it looks. That's what I would 362 00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:15.680 tell Langdon. Langdon's gonna sit down and he's got to look to the other 363 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:21.359 side of the table and say, money, tell me why you want to 364 00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:27.359 stay here and coach this team. And he needs I would need an impassion 365 00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:32.279 plea from many about what went wrong last year and how he just can't wait 366 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:38.319 to get out there and turn the narrative around that he's just sitting there and 367 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:44.799 collecting a check. Maybe he's ready to do that. Maybe he's ready to 368 00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:49.200 Maybe he's already reached out to Langdon and said, I can't wait to get 369 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:53.000 the work. Let's do it. Whatever it is, it better be a 370 00:32:53.240 --> 00:33:00.920 hell of a sales job from Williams. Now have he said everything that I 371 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:04.440 just said. I could easily just see him just sitting back. Bonnie Williams 372 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:08.400 and be like, you want to go ahead, I'll get this retirement underway. 373 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:14.640 I'll take I made the sixteen million last year. I'll take a sixty 374 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:19.720 million dollar check and I'll walk A lot of us listening right now think about, 375 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.240 Hey, you don't have to fly around, you have to be at 376 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:27.839 the pistons next year or the next five years. You can just take your 377 00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:30.160 check, fold it up, put it in your back pocket, and fly 378 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:36.359 wherever you want for the rest of your life and your entire family as well. 379 00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:38.799 So that is going to be the first order of business. Now, 380 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:45.640 if I had to predict, it's tough. I don't know much about Langdon 381 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:53.319 as a player at Duke, and that if you're worth anything as a competitor, 382 00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:58.799 you are going to sell that as I want to be on the sideline 383 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:02.000 and I want to get this thing going. And you know, you know, 384 00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:06.119 he doesn't need to throw Troy Weaver under the whatever. She used to 385 00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:09.119 go out there and says, you know, he wants to here's his ideas 386 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:14.360 and he could sell it. But so I think he's going to get an 387 00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:24.400 opportunity to continue coaching. Now. I do think if I was somebody that 388 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:30.280 was an NBA writer certainly a Pistons writer. And I was in the off 389 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:34.639 season and the editor said, you know, we're gonna need some content. 390 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:37.559 I would sit down. One of the first things that I would write was 391 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:43.159 Coaches on the hot Seat for twenty twenty four. Monny Williams's name is going 392 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:44.920 to be right at the top, and next to it, it's going to 393 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:51.519 be training at Langdon is the new basketball president of basketball Operations. He's not 394 00:34:51.679 --> 00:35:00.639 standing for any thing like last year, and then he'll be gone. And 395 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:04.280 I don't think that he will be the head coach at this time next year, 396 00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:06.880 but I do think he'll be the coach at the start of the year. 397 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:13.599 So those are the two orders of business for Langdon Waiver. I can't 398 00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:17.639 see how he stays around, but I do think Money Williams will come back, 399 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:25.639 even though the Pistons are open to taking these sixty million dollars and flushing 400 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:36.559 it down the toilet. You look at the Pistons and you're training Langdon and 401 00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:37.559 you're flying in, you say, all right, what do I got? 402 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:45.800 You got Kate Cuttingham. That's the first thing you already thought that Kate Cuttingham 403 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:52.199 could have been last year saying get me out of Dodge. It's the first 404 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.440 call I'm going to make if I'm trading Langdon saying hey, Cad, these 405 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.760 are my ideas, this is what I'm going to do. Everything should be 406 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:07.480 about can we get Kate Cuttingham to stick this out for give us a chance 407 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:15.880 this year. Kate Cunningham said all the right things last year about people were 408 00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:16.519 like, hey, you went out of Dodge and he's like, no, 409 00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:21.760 I don't. I'm in. He has said he's been all in. That's 410 00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:25.400 a credit to Kate Cuttingham. Most NBA players in his spot just be like, 411 00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:34.360 get me out of here. Other than that, Jaden Ivy, last 412 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:40.719 year's first round pick, User Thompson, you know he's a development piece. 413 00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:49.519 Jalen Duran's nights. It's like these guys are Thompson a beef stew and Jalen 414 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:54.119 Duran. I think those three starters, those three guys, it would be 415 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.599 if you're talking about a playoff team. You'd like to see those guys coming 416 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:02.679 off the bench, and you know, having some guys that could score and 417 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:07.360 shoot in their place is individually they're not all that bad. Like I said, 418 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:13.960 Thompson, you expect a lot more from him and in the development side. 419 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.840 You know, the beef do is just like he's okay, and he 420 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:22.559 would be best unless you have four tremendous players around him. He would be 421 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:24.920 best coming off the bench. And I would say the same thing about Durreat. 422 00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:30.599 So really it's it's cutting Ham and Ivy. Pistons do have sixty two 423 00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:37.320 million and cap space, But you look at the free agents. Is Spicy 424 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:44.159 p really going to take, you know, some max offer from the Pistons. 425 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.920 Pascal Siakam, he's there in Indiana right now, He's going to be 426 00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:52.239 a free agent. The way he's playing, he's going to command the top 427 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.760 dollar. Is he going to look to the Pistons and say, yeah, 428 00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:00.599 it's a quandary when you're talking about the very free agents. If the Pistons, 429 00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:05.840 you know, would offer a max deal because they would only be coming 430 00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:09.039 for the money, but hey, you've got it, you're at least going 431 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:15.920 to offer it up, at least to him. Demark DeRozan is also a 432 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.559 free agent. He would also be another one. These are the top two 433 00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:23.519 targets I would think for Langdon. Other than that, you know, I've 434 00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:28.039 seen the name Tobias Harris. I think he played for the Pistons. Maybe 435 00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:34.079 that's why, But I haven't really felt Tobias Harris since he played for the 436 00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:38.719 Pistons. Was he was a disappointment in Philadelphia overall. So you're gonna pay 437 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:43.800 him a boatload of money. I would be hesitant to do that if I 438 00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:47.199 was Langham. So if you can't get Siakham or DeRozan, you're gonna have 439 00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:51.559 to piece some things together and then you're gonna have to show us what you're 440 00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:58.280 made of that way. So good luck to Trajan Langdon who has that order 441 00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:01.800 of business straight ahead. You want to dial in on any of that you 442 00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:07.239 had the playoffs from last night. Boston goes up two to ozh at Minton 443 00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:15.199 a double overtime. Connor McDavid scores thirty two seconds into the double overtime session 444 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:20.840 and Edmonton takes a one ozero series lead. They won three to two last 445 00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:27.000 night. And we've got Panthers and Rangers and maps Tea Wolves coming up tonight. 446 00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:31.119 Oh yeah, the Tigers. Tigers played last night and they lost their 447 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:39.039 fifth in a row. They are four games under five hundred and they get 448 00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:51.639 beat up nine to one. I listened and watched the game, and it 449 00:39:51.880 --> 00:40:02.039 wasn't encouraging. Tigers are now ten games back in the Al Central to the 450 00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:08.039 Guardians, and the Royals are only a game and a half back. The 451 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:15.239 Twinkies six and a half games back of the Guardians, but low scoring early. 452 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:19.119 Jack Flaherty on the mound for the Tigers gave up seven hits, three 453 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.280 runs. He worked into the seventh inning, so not so bad. But 454 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:30.440 then Vladimir Guerrero Junior. The bullpen, which when we were sitting here, 455 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:34.800 certainly two weeks ago, you talked about, I talked about. You knew 456 00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:38.079 it, Oh man, this bullpen, this starting pitching for the Tigers, 457 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:45.159 and you know now that has gone sideways. And the offense which perked up 458 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.599 here and there you thought, oh hey, now the hitting's going the pitching's 459 00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:53.199 going south. You know, now both of them are ore south and that's 460 00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:58.079 not a combination that's going to make anybody excited. The story of the game. 461 00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:00.239 However, as I was a dry around, I was listening to the 462 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:07.159 radio broadcast. Dan Dickerson is working with the former Tiger Andy Dirks in the 463 00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:10.480 broadcast booth, and Dickerson's like, I don't know if that was a splitter 464 00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:14.000 or not. I don't know if that was a slider. We don't have 465 00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:20.480 our our television booth. We have had a power outage here at Comerica and 466 00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:25.000 okay, Dan, I got ya. But then I tuned into the game 467 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:32.320 and Jason Beniti it was two seconds ahead of the television copy. The audio 468 00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:37.400 was done, I think over his cell phone. It was the worst sounding 469 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:40.679 and the worst presentation. Not their fault. I don't know though. Whatever 470 00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.280 the power outage was, he couldn't get it going. But it lasted so 471 00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:49.599 long, and the jokes, you know, the power outage. We're a 472 00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:58.159 parent for this for this Tiger team and just yea terrible all around situation for 473 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.159 the crew there. The tree had to make the best out of it that 474 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:06.440 they could. But in the end, when you lose five in a row 475 00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:10.719 and you get the broadcast like that, just they thumbs down all over, 476 00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:15.719 thumbs up on the Lions, though, super Bowl or bust. We're gonna 477 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:22.559 dive into that straight ahead on this Memorial weekend. I'm den it's fifthy and 478 00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:25.760 in Formatt Sheppard ben Zos is here are the ones and twos on Exes and 479 00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:31.480 Bros and the Michigan Sports Network. 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