5/17/26 8:00PM RD2 GM7 Cavs (3-3) @ Pistons (3-3)

[Tigeraholic1]

Little Caesars Arena - Detroit, MI

Watch: Prime

 

Edited Saturday at 01:45 PM by Tigeraholic1

[Adullin]

Ok take a shot for everytime Harden flops. 

[Betrayer]

1 hour ago, Adullin said:

Ok take a shot for everytime Harden flops. 

You'd need to own a liquor store to have that much booze lying around.

[casimir]

2 hours ago, Adullin said:

Ok take a shot for everytime Harden flops. 

Egads,…. I cannot be dead for work on Monday.

[casimir]

Ah….. morning coffee on the patio with a light breeze, birds chirping, the smell of a game 7 victory,….  That’s right, the morning of a game 7 victory smells like the lilac bush with a hint of bacon from a neighbor’s kitchen.  Going to add freshly cut grass to that mix soon, too.

[Betrayer]

Our referees are:

Marc Davis, Ben Taylor, Kevin Scott, Brent Barnaky

[casimir]

Just now, Betrayer said:

Our referees are:

Marc Davis, Ben Taylor, Kevin Scott, Brent Barnaky

Is this good, bad, indifferent?

[Deleterious]

4-1 this season with Davis as the crew chief.

Pistons are wearing blue tonight.

[monkeytargets39]

There is zero reason for this game to be at 8:00pm.

[casimir]

5 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

There is zero reason for this game to be at 8:00pm.

While true, the answer to all your questions is money.

The TV show starts at 8:00.  Tip probably won’t be until 8:15.  Elongated TV timeouts and whatnot will push the end of this to close to 11:00.

[monkeytargets39]

9 minutes ago, casimir said:

While true, the answer to all your questions is money.

The TV show starts at 8:00.  Tip probably won’t be until 8:15.  Elongated TV timeouts and whatnot will push the end of this to close to 11:00.

I get it, but both teams are in the eastern time zone, so the time should favor that local areas schedule.  If it was an east v west team I can understand a lot more.  Is it really such a big deal for west coast fans to watch the game at 3 or 4pm on Sunday?  

Edited Sunday at 02:19 PM by monkeytargets39

[Deleterious]

 

[Betrayer]

53 minutes ago, casimir said:

Is this good, bad, indifferent?

If you looked at it during the regular season, you'd think it was fine. As Del said, we had a winning record with Davis as crew chief. He also has the 6th lowest called fouls per game and 4th lowest point total per game. 

Sounds great, right?

Nope.

Davis was the Crew Chief for Game 4. Remember that one? That's the one where the Cavs shot 34 free throws to our 12 and Mitchell alone had more than our entire team.

Now, maybe it was the rest of the crew (Tiven, Maddox, and Ervin) who called all those fouls in Game 4 and Davis will return to regular season form tonight. Or maybe it was just the call from the league office. Guess we'll find out later.

[lordstanley]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

While true, the answer to all your questions is money.

The TV show starts at 8:00.  Tip probably won’t be until 8:15.  Elongated TV timeouts and whatnot will push the end of this to close to 11:00.

I’m hoping. My flight from Asia gets in at 10:15 ET and I have low hopes for wifi before then. I don’t think I can count on more than the 2nd half of the 4th and that will be with Blaha, who legendary as he is, tends to forget he is calling this series for radio not TV.  I’ve watched each game of the series over breakfast here (Japan and Taiwan) for $5.99 a pop via League Pass. But I’m an admitted fair weather/bandwagon Pistons fan so my travel schedule isn’t really a good enough reason for the league to schedule the game for 8pm. 

Edited Sunday at 03:40 PM by lordstanley

[oblong]

I’m pretty sure that fans of participating teams are not considered at all in the equation for an NBA playoff game 7. It’s whatever the league and entity paying for the broadcast rights want. I went to a tiger playoff game on a Saturday night and came right back Sunday morning for a noon start time. 

[buddha]

Our old friend JEIII article today about how the knicks would rather play the cavs than the pistons.  basically because the cavs are soft.

he also says the knicks should beat either team.  i think that's overrating the knicks.

or perhaps he thinks the pistons are not very good without difference maker isaiah livers?

Edited Sunday at 04:06 PM by buddha

[Betrayer]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

Our old friend JEIII article today about how the knicks would rather play the cavs than the pistons.  basically because the cavs are soft.

he also says the knicks should beat either team.  i think that's overrating the knicks.

or perhaps he thinks the pistons are not very good without difference maker isaiah livers?

JEIII is Captain Obvious. Everyone knows the Knicks wants the Cavs. They've had the Cavs number all year and we've had the Knicks number all year.

We all know it. The Knicks know it. The league knows it.

I just hope the refs forgot about it for one night.

[Hongbit]

3 hours ago, Betrayer said:

Our referees are:

Marc Davis, Ben Taylor, Kevin Scott, Brent Barnaky

You left out Adam Silver and whatever the name is of his toad that does the draft lottery.     

This is going to take a huge effort to get it done.   Home court advantage is lessened considerably by the fact the league was already advertising a Cavs/Knicks series.    They want the Cavs.

Btw, it doesn’t make any sense to me.  The horrible fake fouls will become so obvious and fans are bound to get sick of the constant free throw series featuring the Four Tops of Flops in SGA/Wemby and Brunson/Harden.  They need the Pistons in there to balance things out.  

[gehringer_2]

3 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Four Tops of Flop

"It's the Same, Old Song....."

[casimir]

8 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

You left out Adam Silver and whatever the name is of his toad that does the draft lottery.     

This is going to take a huge effort to get it done.   Home court advantage is lessened considerably by the fact the league was already advertising a Cavs/Knicks series.    They want the Cavs.

Btw, it doesn’t make any sense to me.  The horrible fake fouls will become so obvious and fans are bound to get sick of the constant free throw series featuring the Four Tops of Flops in SGA/Wemby and Brunson/Harden.  They need the Pistons in there to balance things out.  

Four Tops of Flops?  Genius.

[Sports_Freak]

3 hours ago, monkeytargets39 said:

There is zero reason for this game to be at 8:00pm.

$$$$$$$

[Sports_Freak]

At about 11 PM tonight, I'm either going to be grinning and happy or mad and depressed. So before my possible knee-jerk reactions, let me state that this season has been a total blast. As much as I now don't like Cleveland, I would still want them to beat NY. 

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Betrayer]

4 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

At about 11 PM tonight, I'm either going to be grinning and happy or mad and depressed. So before my possible knee-jerk reactions, let me state that this season has been a total blast. As much as I now don't like Cleveland, I would still want them to beat NY. 

Totally agree. Amazing season!

And yea, I guess I'll root for the Cavs if they win. I hate Harden so bad, but it's balanced by my hate of the other flopper, Brunson. Once you add KAT into the mix, the answer becomes obvious.