Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick on this
Speaker 1: episode of the Heat Check, so much to discuss. I
Speaker 1: had one of the best weekends sports weekends of my
Speaker 1: life and it included watching the Detroit Pistons whoop our
Speaker 1: doves ass very disgusting performance for our Doves, the team
Speaker 1: that is slated to win it all, and it was rocking,
Speaker 1: full report on deck, so much fun. I also am
Speaker 1: breaking down two the best guards in the league right now,
Speaker 1: starting with Donovan Mitchell, and only one guard really that's
Speaker 1: playing better than Donovan, So we'll get into who that is.
Speaker 2: And of course we have to get into the drama
Speaker 2: surrounding who else? Who else?
Speaker 1: Could it be?
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving?
Speaker 1: Lots popin Nick to do me a favor, drop that
Speaker 1: beat all right, before we get into the news, let's
Speaker 1: talk about damn. Detroit is a great sports city. I
Speaker 1: tell you what, it was absolutely electric. I went and
Speaker 1: saw Detroit Pistons play the Golden State Warriors at Little
Speaker 1: Caesars Arena, and let me tell you I've got some thoughts.
Speaker 2: Things started out.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, bet MGM shout out to BEDMGM. They
Speaker 1: wind us, they dined us, they took us to the
Speaker 1: Michigan Michigan State game on Saturday night. They took us
Speaker 1: to the Detroit Lions playing the Miami Dolphins on Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: and then I got up in there watched the Pistons
Speaker 1: game as a credential media member on Sunday night.
Speaker 2: It was action packed. The only other people out there.
Speaker 1: That did the same thing as me were Jalen and Jacoby,
Speaker 1: which was fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: And I tell you what, the Pistons.
Speaker 1: Playing the Golden State Warriors, coming off of an embarrassing
Speaker 1: loss to the Hornets, You're thinking to yourself, the Warriors
Speaker 1: should bounce back, right, The Warriors should get together and say, listen,
Speaker 1: we can't let these scrub teams on a road trip
Speaker 1: fucking beat us. Let's get our shit together, let's lock in,
Speaker 1: and let's tell the Detroit Pistons what's up.
Speaker 2: And you know what, I.
Speaker 1: Even took the Golden State Warriors minus nine and a
Speaker 1: half to beat the Pistons on an alternate line.
Speaker 2: That's how confident I.
Speaker 1: Was that the Golden State Warriors were gonna come in
Speaker 1: there and put the whooping on these boys. And you
Speaker 1: know what, No, this team event early on. The Warriors
Speaker 1: came out on a rule Steph put out thirty seven.
Speaker 1: They put up as a team thirty seven.
Speaker 2: Excuse me.
Speaker 1: In the first quarter, it felt like it was gonna
Speaker 1: be a blowout. We know what it does, we know
Speaker 1: the script. We've seen it a zillion times. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you look up and the Pistons
Speaker 1: are up twenty and you're like, hmm, that's odd outscoring
Speaker 1: them by sixteen to take an eight point lead at half.
Speaker 1: And here's what I saw at this point. It was
Speaker 1: a team that was despite being young, they are very
Speaker 1: committed to their starters. Right, You've got Bogdanovich, You've got
Speaker 1: as they call them, they call them a they call
Speaker 1: them beef Stewie, Beef Stewie, Isaiah Stewart, they call them
Speaker 1: something crazy. In Detroit, Cade Cunningham, Sadiq, Bay and Jade
Speaker 1: and Ivy all played thirty one minutes or more. Four
Speaker 1: of them ended with twenty one or more points.
Speaker 2: These guys are.
Speaker 1: Balling as the Warriors, we know are the greatest third
Speaker 1: quarter team probably in history.
Speaker 2: And that's what started to happen. The leads started to shrink.
Speaker 1: You look up, the Warriors are only down seven or something.
Speaker 1: The crowd starts to lose their feeling of excitement. They're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, what's gonna happen. E forty's in there getting
Speaker 1: exc You got roys to five nine legend they're playing
Speaker 1: eminem It was just starting to get tents in there.
Speaker 1: Jalen's on the sideline screaming, standing up, Come on.
Speaker 2: Don't let the Warriors beat you.
Speaker 1: Pool had an insane third quarter. I think get eighteen
Speaker 1: points in the third quarter alone. Pistons did not flinch, folks.
Speaker 1: It was bucket after bucket, tough lay by Jaden Ivy
Speaker 1: and one making things uncomfortable for the Warriors, bodying them up,
Speaker 1: making Draymond make the tough pass. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're shooting forty three percent from three against one of
Speaker 1: the best perimeter defenses in the entire league, Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1: The Pistons came to play, and they they slayed the dragon.
Speaker 2: They slayed the dragon.
Speaker 1: Despite all of the third quarter antics, they still figured
Speaker 1: out a way to do it.
Speaker 2: And they didn't play afraid.
Speaker 1: And they were in games last year they lost a
Speaker 1: ton late, and I expect them to start winning some
Speaker 1: of those games this year.
Speaker 2: Another thing that.
Speaker 1: Was interesting really quick as an aside, is that the
Speaker 1: Warriors played all their starters all the way until like
Speaker 1: a minute and twenty seconds left in the game, and
Speaker 1: they were down big. They thought that they could still
Speaker 1: come back no matter what. They were pushing the pace,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's coming off off ball, shooting threes. They're trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out, and I'm like, dude, give it up.
Speaker 1: You're down sixteen with ninety seconds left to play, but
Speaker 1: they don't care. That's how fast they score. What's different
Speaker 1: this year a veteran, a veteran Bogdanovich. And I wondered,
Speaker 1: why'd you guys get him? Why'd you trade for Bogdanovic?
Speaker 1: That don't make no sense. But every as I forget
Speaker 1: his name, what's his name, Henry hank Royce, my lift
Speaker 1: driver today was like, every young team needs a veteran presence,
Speaker 1: and he's right, and that's what Bogdanovich is. And all
Speaker 1: he is is a three point shooting bucket. And you
Speaker 1: know what, the Detroit Pistons also believe even Bogdanovich, because
Speaker 1: this weekend he signed a two year, thirty nine million dollar.
Speaker 2: Extension twenty million dollars a year for Bogdanovich. Can you
Speaker 2: believe who? He's averaging twenty three points per game? Bogdanovich?
Speaker 2: How good has he been from three? My man is
Speaker 2: shooting fifty two percent from three right now. He is
Speaker 2: a prop king. His three point point prop right now
Speaker 2: has been automatic.
Speaker 1: Kate Cunningham, I've said some mean things about him in
Speaker 1: his bus face, but man, was he so good. It
Speaker 1: started out slow, but he had twenty three ten to nine,
Speaker 1: one assist short of a triple double against the Warriors,
Speaker 1: against the real defense. KD was given it to him,
Speaker 1: giving him buckets after buckets, getting rebound after rebound. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm kind of a Detroit Pistons fan. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like Detroit now. Also met these amazing
Speaker 1: chefs in the elevator sus chef executive chef in the
Speaker 1: media elevator.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you guys cooking up?
Speaker 1: And they're like, just the best food in Little Caesars Arena,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, really, what's up with it? And they're like,
Speaker 1: come by, And I did come by, and you know what,
Speaker 1: they got me a nice little flatbread. They got me
Speaker 1: a nice beat salad. And then when I asked for
Speaker 1: the bill.
Speaker 2: They laughed. They laughed at me. There was no bill,
Speaker 2: there was no check.
Speaker 1: They told me, thank you for coming in and gracing
Speaker 1: them with my presence, like I was somebody so Detroit.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for being as hospitable and the
Speaker 1: weather held up.
Speaker 2: It could not have been better.