James Edwards III
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. I'm Zena Cato. We are going to be covering the game sixes across the Western and Eastern Conference. David DeFore is actually at the LA Clippers Denver Nuggets game. We'll catch up with him in a second. But first, James Edwards III is here to break down how the Detroit Pistons ended their season. James, how are you?
I think we all are, including the New York Knicks and the Detroit Pistons. They close out their series. I think, you know, if you're looking at the two sides of the NBA sphere, New York-Detroit was pretty much the most interesting, most fun series overall. You think about a series that ended 4-2. decisive scores, 15-point differential between all six games. Very tight series.
Actually, second in NBA history to have four straight games decided by three points or fewer. The last time that happened was in 1984 in the Eastern Conference Finals with the Celtics and the 76ers. So... New York, Detroit making some history. Of course, Detroit made their own history, getting to the playoffs, winning a playoff game, but they weren't able to win at home, James.
I want to start first and foremost with the Knicks because We saw a Brunson clinic, a Brunson burner. As the Knicks would say, bad boy Brunson came out. I mean, 40-burger, four rebounds, seven assists, but particularly, once again, another unbelievable clutch performance. I mean, he cooks up the craziest moves, despite Asar Thompson having unbelievable clamps on him in the fourth quarter.
Like, are you surprised at all by what Brunson is capable of doing in the fourth quarter?
There you go. And that's the thing, though. As you look ahead to the next series, I'm looking at the New York offense. Of course, Tobias Harris did his thing in shutting down a Carl Anthony Towns. Finished with 10 points. Yes, 15 rebounds, but definitely not the production that you'd expect out of
The two-man game between Jalen and Cat, a lot more so out of Mikael Bridges and OJ Ananobi, who combined for 57 points. They were the offense for the Knicks alongside Jalen. Now, is that sustainable going against Boston, especially considering the size that Boston has?
And they just also played the Thibodeau Marathon, which is Brunson ending with 42 minutes in that game, putting up 33 shots. The volume of energy expenditure that the New York Knicks just did against a Detroit Pistons defense is crazy. And then you have to go and go against the Boston Celtics. It's going to be crazy. Yeah.
I want to also ask you, though, about Detroit, because obviously you used to cover Detroit. So I'm sure there's a spot in your heart that you're like, you're proud of them. They got to the big stage. They felt the lights. And let's be real. In this game six, it felt as if in the beginning of the game, the lights were a little too bright. They're putting some of the shades on.
Cade Cunningham couldn't figure out his shot early in the game. He did end up with nine points in that first quarter. But over the course of the game, particularly in the fourth quarter, that's where they needed him to step up and bring that offense that he's used to bringing. And he could not find a shot. I think he ended up just four points in the fourth quarter.
But it makes you think about the future. With the way that Jalen Duran was playing this series and you think about the backcourt, of course, Tim Hardaway Jr. struggled in this game, only scoring seven points. But imagine if that's Jaden Ivey out there again, right? Like there were so many aspects of it.
What do you think when you're looking at the Destroyed Pistons team and the way they played in this series? Like what was most exciting for you having known the history of how they got to this place?
I mean, they had a season. They end up 44-38. They won 14 games last season and found themselves going to sixth. And you were there for all of that. And we used to commend you. Like, how is James writing about this day in, day out? And of course, you find a way to still...
celebrate them right in this series and I'm wondering you know lessons learned of course going into the next year of the playoff stage because you literally saw Jalen Brunson show up in a way in a superstar way he showed up and was the best player in this game not necessarily I wouldn't say the best player in the series but definitely in this game and in the wins that they had he was the one that showed up and stepped up so what are the lessons particularly for maybe a Cade Cunningham
going to close out this year and get ready for the next opportunity to get on that stage.
James, you always come with the wisdom. appreciate that there you go i love it you were cooking don't you worry go read james over at the athletic got the story over the next now going to the series with boston celtics when does that start by the way do you know monday monday in boston monday night eastern conference is heating up appreciate you james now go to bed i know it's been a long one
now if new york and detroit were the most interesting series in the east dave defoe was actually at the most interesting series of the west and really the entire nba denver nuggets and la clippers have been battling and it's not finished yet y'all there's still a game seven as the clippers forced that beating the nuggets in game six one eleven to one oh five dave You're you were there.
You were there for the clinic that Norman Powell, Kawhi Leonard and particularly James Harden put on Denver from the top of this game. Would you have expected the way that James Harden played, especially considering the dud that he laid in game five?
Well, you I'm happy you mentioned the entire board of all the people that contributed to this. But let's just be real. My French flag is waving right now. Nick Batum. Amazing. All the way up. I mean, I think the stats say he had two blocks. I felt like he had like 30. He was everywhere and he was hitting big shots as well.
I mean, how key was Batum stepping up in particularly this game in this series?
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