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But this did feel, Justin, reasonably representative to me of who they are.

Yeah, just like a couple of threes going down at all, not even a great percentage, just any shots whatsoever, plus Jalen Duren, plus just getting some of that like digging out random flip shots from the muck for assorted Pistons role players.

That's kind of all it takes if your defense is this good.

And to me, that's kind of one of the takeaways from the larger Pistons experience here is

they don't really need the breakout from a score other than Cade to be a really good team.

They just need their defense to actually play like this.

The way that it did in a really dominant regular season, in a way that I expect it will against the vast majority of playoff opponents, the Magic were able to match them in terms of some of that physicality in game one.

But I think the punch back here was very inspiring as far as what Detroit's playoff trajectory could ultimately be.

And certainly for this series, I think they're going to have a pretty good feel for it going forward.

was just like body checking him every step of the way was not able to get to all those like even cutesy little layups and flip shots that he might like to yeah you mean by that Rob

I just think they have some affiliation.

You know, they have some shared history.

They have a lot to talk about, as we all do.

I had to run this by three sources.

I'm just saying, that one's alleged.

Wendell Carter, that one's confirmed.

Yeah.

This is just what the series is at this point.

So I'm enjoying, even if you want to take that out of it, even if you want to pretend all that stuff isn't part of the dynamic, part of the series, these two sinners going at each other.

I've just enjoyed.