Dan Woike

That's not who they are.

And it is who Detroit is.

And so what you see is you see inconsistency.

To me, people that are surprised by these blowout losses and the one-sided nature of them, by and large, have all come in very similar types of games.

And it usually has to do with the fact that they don't have the energy or the effort.

I mean, sometimes these words are mistaken for desire, like it's a want-to thing.

But I think motor is a skill.

I think toughness and physicality are skills.

And that is not currently the MO of this roster.

A lot of the guys that provided that for them last year are elsewhere.

Jordan Goodwin's in Phoenix.

Dorian Finney-Smith just made his season debut in Houston.

Trey Jemison is on a two-way somewhere else.

These were the guys that were like, I mean, JJ Reddick called them last year the Banshees.

Right.

And they were not only was like, not only did they play with energy, but it was infectious energy to others.

Marcus Smart was supposed to fix that, Dan.

He's one person.

He has been in and out of the lineup.

He's been totally in and out of the lineup.