The Pindown: A Detroit Pistons Podcast

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, we're talking about your 11-15 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I talk about the impact Blake Griffin's ailing knee will have on this team, we discuss our comfort level with Derrick Rose closing games, and then we do some quick trade discussion - I tell you which Pistons expiring contract has there already been rumored interest in.

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In this week's episode of Inside The Cylinder, we discuss the Pistons recent "surge". They've won four of their last six games: is this a sign that the season may turnaround? Or is it more reflective on their quality of opponent?

We'll also discuss Reggie Jackson's impending return - he'll be re-evaluated in the next couple of days, and could get back on court as early as next week. How will this affect the Pistons line-ups? Who's minutes are going to decrease? And should Jackson come off the bench?

Lastly, we'll talk the upcoming trade season, that kicks off on December 15th, when 90% of the league will be eligible to be traded. What will the Pistons do? What should the Pistons do? Buy, sell or stand pat?

All that and more in this week's episode! And make sure to follow Inside The Cylinder on Twitter at @InsideTheCylndr!

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Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, we're talking about your 9-14 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker makes his triumphant, healthy return to the podcast, and he and I talk about the Pistons finding their footing on both ends of the floor, who the team should operate through down the stretch of close games, and how the Pistons got suckered into a home game 2284 miles outside of Detroit. 

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Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, we're talking about your 7-13 Detroit Pistons. I fly solo this week to talk about why I believe rebuilding isn't necessarily the path forward for this team, why I'd be comfortable trading this year's first-round pick to get a certain type of player on this team, and what kind of an owner Tom Gores is.

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Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, we're talking about your 5-11 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I talk about the most recent Andre Drummond trade rumor, note the team's improvement defensively this past week, and whether or not this is the best version of Blake Griffin the Pistons will get this season.

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In this week's episode of Inside The Cylinder, we discuss Detroit's 4-10 start to the season. Detroit's lost a ton of "winnable" games, and are coming off a twenty point blowout loss to the Chicago Bulls - who many had predicted would miss the playoffs this season. It's their second loss of the season to the Bulls, and their fifth loss to expected lottery teams.

Where do they go from here? Detroit's in a tough situation when it comes to a rebuild for a variety of reasons, but does that mean they should continue with this team as is?

And what would a rebuild even look like? Soft rebuild? Blow this mother f'er up? We'll take a look at what Detroit can, and should do moving forward from here.

And make sure to follow Inside The Cylinder on Twitter at @InsideTheCylndr!

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Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, we're talking about your 4-9 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I give our DEFCON code levels for this team through 13 games, bat around ways this team can fix it's perimeter defense, and then we talk about what happens if the season doesn't turn around - is a Blake Griffin trade in the cards for Detroit?

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Blake Griffin is back in the lineup (on a minutes restriction) and the Pistons dropped three winnable games in a row. Team leaders have sensed frustration regarding overall effort and Dwane Casey continues to struggle with a makeshift rotation.

We make sense of this familiar mess and answer your questions in these week's mailbag. Do we need to hit the panic button at the point guard position? Should we make a trade? And what the hell is wrong with this defense?

All that and more in this week's episode!

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Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, we're talking about your 4-6 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I talk about Blake Griffin's return, what that means for some of the other players that have found success in his absence... and then we talk about Michael Pina's Andre Drummond piece. At length.

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In this week's episode, we discuss the Pistons first couple of weeks of the season. We'll also discuss six positive, and a couple negative takeaways that we've noticed so far.

2:15 - schedule recap

5:20 - injury updates

11:00 - six positive takeaways

45:25 - negative takeaways

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