Zach Lowe

I could do the most stuff, but how does my stuff fit with their stuff?

The two guards have both gone up a level significantly.

Like the conversation about a blockbuster involving any of those pieces is over and put aside.

They're just not doing it.

I think I can see something to your point about we've got to do something with these contracts.

Is there a Sohan plus Olenek or like Sohan being a guy who some team might be intrigued by doesn't,

as a second draft kind of player, you know, and three seconds, does that get us another guy who can shoot a little bit and come in and play 15 minutes for us in the playoffs?

They've reached the status where that kind of trade, that kind of smaller win now trade could really, really help them.

I use the word upheaval a lot to describe midseason trades that are just so gigantic in how they conceptually trade your team that you have to pause for a second and remember

what you're asking and what you're doing in a trade like that is a, you're doing like a two for one or a three for one.

So your depth gets shallower right off the bat.

And B you're being like, all right, when B and year three with, you know, a lot of injuries the last two years, just figure it out with another guy who's a center and has a broken jump shot.

Just figure that out in 30 games.

Good luck.

It's, it's a lot.

That was a good win for Detroit, by the way.

I know you didn't enjoy it, but that was a tough, fired-up home crowd, fired-up Celtics, a lot of media coverage, chip on their shoulder, guys that you talked about, everyone's got something to prove.

That was a nice win for the Pistons.

I think the next month is going to be telling how bunched up the East is right now from three to nine.

You could go on a three-game winning streak and suddenly be ninth, or three-game losing streak and suddenly be ninth.