Detroit Pistons' Recent Surge: Keys to Their Success

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00:00Why don't we start in Detroit, and then we'll do the rest after the break.

00:04The Blazers are in town against the Pistons, who, believe it or not, Joe, the Pistons have

00:10now fought themselves to one game under.

00:14At 17-18, they have been on an absolute tear.

00:18I believe they have now won six out of seven, including beating the Timberwolves on Saturday.

00:26They are laying six and a half at home to the Blazers tonight, 224 and a half the total.

00:32Yeah, and listen, they, Charlotte, I would consider to be on that same trail Blazers

00:40conversation.

00:41Orlando's got absolutely no offense, but has played good defense.

00:46You know, you look at those three wins here, Minnesota, Charlotte, Orlando, sure, you lost

00:51to Denver, but you took them to the wire.

00:54And then you're coming off that Sacramento win.

00:56I mean, they are playing great basketball here.

01:00Very hard to go against them in this spot.

01:03No Jeremy Grant, I believe, still for Portland.

01:06Yeah, I don't think these two teams are on the same level anymore.

01:11I don't either.

01:12And that was, like you said, losing that game to Denver.

01:15That was the last game of that West Coast trip, and they had won every game on that

01:18trip.

01:19And like I said this to Scottie Leslie, like East Coast teams don't go on that trip and

01:24win every game.

01:25Nope.

01:26They just don't.

01:27Correct.

01:28You're gonna, usually you're lucky to split on a West Coast trip like that.

01:31And they did a hell of a job and they only lost that one game there in Denver.

01:36The Suns are in Philadelphia tonight against the Sixers.

01:41So as of right now, minus three and a half for Philly, 222 and a half the total.

01:47That tells me, even though they list them as a game time decision, that Embiid's gonna

01:50play tonight, Joe, is what that tells me.

01:53Yeah.

01:54And I've got, I mean, the Suns have lost four games in a row.

01:58They are five and ten on the road this season, and nothing about this team screams turnaround

02:04here.

02:05I can't bet them.

02:06To me, it's all about Philadelphia.

02:09Fifteen and eighteen, the Suns, so far this year.

02:12I mean, they're three games under 500.

02:15Tells you where they've been.