Trey Kirby

At home, their role players are supposed to play better, and no one supported Cade's 39, essentially, in that game.

And people will be asking, looking up and down that roster, I thought the bench would come through.

I thought the replacements of Dennis Schroeder and Malik Beasley would come through.

Malik Beasley...

Why'd you have to gamble, man?

If he was out there in game one, I think he hit some shots.

But in this one, as it came down, you look at every possession where they only scored one point in those last five minutes and Cade was just unable to hit open shots and either were his friends, either were his teammates.

And just to add in, to win the ugly battle, the Pistons just had to play a little better defense.

I thought Asar Thompson didn't get out to Jalen Suggs with six-plus minutes left in the corner.

Jalen Suggs hadn't hit a shot all game.

And Asar Thompson just kind of fell asleep a little bit.

Great defender.

Fantastic defender.

But this fourth quarter where it was 19-19, you needed every little ugly defensive battle, and he missed Jalen Suggs in that rotation.

Jalen Suggs had a three.

Three of 19 points.

Just like that.

I know.

Yeah, or Franz keeps being injured.

That's part of it.