J. Kyle Mann

In this game, Detroit, I sent this to Rob last night, Detroit ran 39 pick and rolls in this game at .564 points per possession.

That's a packed paint where guys are being dared to make shots.

Jalen Dern is in a crowd, and it's leading to fart sound, and they got to figure out how to figure it out.

Nothing jumped out to me.

Guys need to make shots.

That's the first thing that they need.

They need Tobias.

They need Dennis.

That would be a great starting proposition, and I think it'll...

even it up a little bit it'll bring it closer but i think one of the problems that they have is you know you see this in playoff series is that um you know as you start to get you know your opponent starts to push the buttons of your vulnerabilities like what does that do to your level of desperation and where does and what is that what trade-offs do you talk yourself into because the pistons are in this situation with their where they're like all right man we need some more you know we need some more spacing we need a little more creation on the

on the floor and who are the candidates to do that.

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.