How Panicked should the Pistons be? | Morning Shoot Around

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:00

[funky music] Welcome to the morning shootaround here on The Athletic NBA Daily. We're live on YouTube. [sighs] It's Wednesday, and, uh, we have a special guest with us. Dave DeFord is with us as always, because he's on every show imaginable. DeFord, Dave DeFord.

Law Murray· Guest0:18

That's what they pay me to do.

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:19

[laughs] That's what they do, in the most literal sense.

Dave DuFour· Host0:23

Literal.

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:23

Um, we've got Lon Murray with us this morning.

Dave DuFour· Host0:26

That's right.

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:26

What a treat.

Dave DuFour· Host0:27

Overdue.

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:28

Lon Murray.

Dave DuFour· Host0:29

Been a while.

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:30

It is.

Law Murray· Guest0:30

Yeah, there's been a lot going on this month. Let's just put it that way. [laughs] But I'm happy- Yeah ... to see you guys.

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:38

Yeah, this is a delight. Uh, so we're going to... I thought we could go through each series, and there's, there's teams that lose. Half the teams are gonna lose, half of them.

Dave DuFour· Host0:50

Yeah.

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:51

Right?

Dave DuFour· Host0:51

I know. I'm so excited.

Andrew Schlecht· Host0:52

And we're gonna- [laughs] [laughs] We're gonna talk about, uh, teams that have either already lost, or even teams. Maybe we get to talk about both teams with some of these series that are 2-2. Um, or even one is 3-2 that we feel like there might be some issues as well. So we're gonna go through each series. We're gonna talk about how much should these teams panic? Like, what is the panic meter? So we'll grade these one to 10. And I thought it, it's, it's good for the panic. We can talk about panic in the, uh, the current sense, but I'd also like to talk about the future of these teams as well.

Dave DuFour· Host1:24

Sure.

Andrew Schlecht· Host1:25

What they need to do as far as, like, this summer, or potential