J. Kyle Mann

And you're looking at, you know, you're looking at throwing out there some, the butcher's boys, some Kevin Herter, throw him out there a little bit.

You're talking about, you know, throwing the keys to Dennis Jenkins.

And the problem is that the magic really feasted on those and their physicality.

It's amazing.

The change in the physicality off-ball, I was even watching Suggs the way that he was bear-hugging Duncan Robinson in ball screens.

He did this a couple different times where he was basically bear-hugging Duncan going into the screen, knowing that that was going to force Cade to go middle in the pick-and-roll.

Then he swooped in and just broke up the lob.

There's all these off-ball physicality things that are going to be tough

Well, they just lost game one at home.

I mean, and you're talking, you're listing out all the reasons to be pretty concerned.

I mean, the Magic are getting right at the right time.

I mentioned the talent thing.

The problem is that, you know, overall, Kate is still the best player in the series.

The problem is just that the Magic have...

this, this area where they can really stress him and take away the core intrinsic thing about what makes the Pistons work in a way that would concern me if I'm a Pistons fan.

And I don't think that this is a shock.

This is a carryover from the, the, I'd be, I'd be pretty concerned.

Granted, I'm, I'm just kind of, uh, uh, I don't know.

I'm not going to say I'm a pessimistic person.

I'm just going to say, I try to look out on the rise and be aware of the danger.