Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones Jr. are joined by Ku Khahil of Locked on Pistons to discuss the biggest threats to Detroit in the Eastern and Western Conferences. Check out the full conversation on “The Dunker Spot and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Is there a team that you’ve seen where it’s just– And it kinda ties to a question that Kias, I think, had, about the Pistons overall.
Is there a team that you’ve seen that’s had just a coverage or an idea where it’s like, ooh, little, little spooked by what this could look like if they nail this over the course of a series?
Does, does the Wemby, does, does the Wemby coverage count?
Like, can I, can I just say Wemby in general?
Yeah.
That counts.
That counts.
Yeah.
Yeah, that’s who, yeah.
Like, San Antonio– I mean, San Antonio by far gave them some of the biggest issues I’ve seen of the year, but they’re so, they’re, they’re so unique because of Wemby that it kinda feels like that I don’t know if other teams will be able to replicate quite what they did, because, again- Mm-hmm just Wemby.
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I don’t know if I can think of just another team, that singular team, that’s really given them the most issues.
’cause I, I think they’ve for the most part done the best with what they can right now.
‘Cause, because of the lack of shooting, and because they live with, like you– I mean, I think that’s a great point what you brought up, Steve, that they’re meeting during much higher.
Like Boston, I guess.
That, that’s a g- I’ll use this one.
Boston has done a much better job in the matchups they’ve played after, like, maybe the first matchup of guarding Durin, and they do it with smaller guys.
And it’s, it’s Going into the matchup, you think Durin should be able to just dominate them ’cause they’re, you know, they’re not A-at least until Cade started to play really well.
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But they had a lot of smaller lineups against the Pistons, and it was like, okay, Durin should just dominate.
But what Boston was doing such a great job of, which I, I don’t know, again, if this is something that a lot of teams have the personnel to do, but they would meet Durin high, like you’re mentioning, in the short roll, and then when he’d catch the ball, they’re sending a lot of smaller bodies, but they’re constantly swiping down at him.
He’s putting the ball down, he’s bringing the ball low, and they’re constantly swiping down to where he’s losing the ball, he’s finding himself in traffic, and it would lead to turnovers.
It would lead to bad offense.
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So now that I’m thinking about it, Boston is the one I would immediately think of, even though the Pistons have won, I think, three of the four matchups.
They ended up winning, but I– Boston was able to utilize a matchup to where they kind of or utilize a scheme in which they were able to do something that was a little bit of a, of a issue for the Pistons.
I don’t know if many teams can kind of replicate with as many, you know Joe Mazzulla’s great, so I don’t know if many teams will be able to do it, but Boston’s one of the ones that come to mind.
And obviously, like, Wemby was, like I, I was in person for that game.
I have never s- He could’ve shot 0500 in that game a-and he would’ve been the most valuable player on the floor.
It was crazy seeing it in person.
It was absolutely insane.