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Anybody blaming Cade for this loss are completely clueless. He was doing everything once Harris cooled down and was exhausted down the stretch. Exactly right, he was let down by his coach first and foremost and his teammates. 3 guys played well most of the game, Cade, Harris and Jenkins. Stew played well for a time and Reed for stretches but it was largely a 3 man show and then largely a 1 man show as Harris faded because he was also gassed.

JB cost them that game. Waited too long to bring in Reed then didn't sit Reed at all after that by replacing with Stewart for a time so he ran out of gas eventually, keeping Lavert in the game when he clearly didn't have it tonight, the Jenkins/Sasser lineup was weird and the worst of all, wasting that challenge on the Lavert foul so they were unable to challenge the obvious foul on Ausar at the end. This was a winnable game that the Pistons, led by their coach, completely choked away. One of the most frustrating games I've ever watched.

Trash yet the Pistons will pay him $40m/yr because of good locker room vibes, only 23 years old or some other **** that we heard about Andre Drummond as well. Meanwhile Reed did more in 10 minutes or so in the last two games than Duren did the whole series. In any event, I felt whoever won this game will win the series and feel even stronger about that now. Cleveland just has the better personnel top to bottom even though they're a bit soft. It doesn't help that JB coaches playoff games as bad as Duren plays them and Stewart is like 20% of what he normally is for the second straight playoffs. It doesn't look good either way.

A winnable game ruined by JB sitting Reed and re-inserting Duren and no Ausar on Harden when Harden was cooking the Pistons. JB is a glorified motivator, his X's and O's leave A LOT to be desired.

He looks old and creaky, plus that beard must smell terrible. Not a good combo

Great win. Cade played like a star in the 4th, Harris continues to be consistently good, Ausar just a menace all over the court, Jenkins showing out again. It'll be interesting to see how they handle being a frontrunner for the first time in a playoff series, hopefully they don't feel content up 2-0 and put Cleveland down for good in Game 3.

The Pistons have looked the part of a 1 seed since going down 62-38 to Orlando. Tobias continues to supply strong secondary scoring, Jenkins despite not shooting well had another good game I thought, Robinson was huge early in the 4th to push the lead to double digits before they gave it back, Duren had his best game of the playoffs and Holland finally played and played predictably well. The team is in a nice rhythm, would really like to see 2-0 going back to Cleveland to really plant the seed of doubt in them.

Also Wagner going down to be quite honest. I'm not sure if they win this series if he's healthy but, hey, that's the way it goes sometimes and the Pistons don't need to apologize for winning against a team missing one of their best players.

They played great basketball outside of that one terrible stretch in the mid 4th quarter. Jenkins and Harris picked a good time to have their best games and Cade was constantly good in the last 3 games although helped by Wagner being out. Hopefully they use this as a learning experience and be better next series because it's only going to get tougher especially if Cleveland is the opponent.

Exactly, JB should be fired for this decision alone not to mention not playing Holland one minute when nobody else on the bench isn't doing anything of note. Absolute trash coaching this series even if they win it.

No fn way they give him that contract. That's an auto Langdon firing if he gives out that contract. I wouldn't give Duren a cent over $30m/yr something like 4 years $120m max. If somebody else wants to send a max offer sheet his way you work a sign and trade immediately.

Not gonna lie, I completely gave up at 60-38 then I did other things then decided to check the score again in the 4th saw 74-72 Pistons and was shocked beyond belief and watched the rest as the Pistons kept expanding the lead and was left with my jaw dropped at how this happened. What an epic comeback at least partially spurred on by historically bad shooting by Orlando. I still don't understand JB's rotations, the moment Reed came in the energy shifted and still no Holland at all which is baffling to me while his pet Levert gets minutes and does **** all with them. I don't know what they're doing to do with Duren but he's just not bringing nearly enough to justify all the minutes JB gives him. Anyway, they need to win Game 7 or else none of this matters and it's a failure of a season so they might as well just go out there and win Game 7.

But it also took Paolo being Superman to keep those guys in the game. It evened out between the two. Regardless, I wouldn't say that this win inspired much confidence since Duren was still largely a no show and the bench still isn't bringing much but they're alive still so we'll take it.

The last two games went down to the wire despite that but, yeah, Orlando has clearly been the better team.

I know he has no help but Cade is overrated guys. He's not a true star, very good player but not a star that takes over games. For this reason, you have to let go of Duren and Ausar because he needs a lot of help and neither of these two is it. Good thing that the playoffs exposed this before they did something foolish like max Duren which they might still do but it would be a big mistake.