The Jazz will be good and the Pistons will be better | The Athletic NBA Show

The Jazz will be good and the Pistons will be better | The Athletic NBA Show

Uh what is your bold prediction for the rest of the season oh man bold prediction this it it’s tough to come up with something like super bold when you disagree take a look at what’s going on here with the league um but I will say I

Think the Utah Jazz will finish ahead of the Lakers and the Mavericks in the Western Conference oh the Mavericks okay that’s juicy that’s a juicy one you don’t believe in Dante exom my seventh man of the year after your after your seventh man speech I’m uh I’m way

Against it so yeah okay okay I like that um all right so in my opinion for a prediction to truly be bold you you should not feel comfortable saying it okay yeah if aren Lakers I did not feel comfortable sayings good that’s how you know that’s bold um so with that

My second half bold prediction is that the Detroit Pistons will win more games than they won last year now as a reminder they won 17 games last year which means they need to go 13 and 25 the rest of the way they have five wins

Uh right now but 13 and 25 that’s only a 28 win Pace Andrew is that so crazy yeah I’m not I’m not asking them to go9 it’s pretty crazy no I’m not asking them to go 5 you should be you should be taken as a compliment it is bold uh well

There’s some early returns that suggests this team is turning a corner over their last five games in which they’ve gone two and three they had the 10th ranked offense per clean the glass 11 19.9 points per 100 possessions okay and I know what you’re saying weren’t those two wins against Washington and

Charlotte yes but shut up Charlotte just beat Minnesota yeah and Washington uh so Troy weer Weaver finally did the bare minimum and he traded for Mike muscala a guy who most would consider a fringe NBA player yeah who also happens to be exactly what Detroit needs right

Now and this team already looks way more functional offensively and when Kade gets back he’s now coming back to a team Andrew that has so much more spacing than it did we got muscala we got Monty Morris he’s back Alec Burks learned how to shoot again he’s shooting 46% from

Three since Kade went out uh sprinkling of Gallow maybe another small trade a mediumsized trade I don’t know I’m not asking this team to do anything crazy okay I’m asking them to play at the pace of a 28- win team the rest of the season that’s it and I think finally once kad’s

Back they uh have the offensive pieces to put a solid offense on the floor every night and win enough to get to 18 games they will finish ahead of the Wizards wow what do you think about that that’s pretty B they’re they’re only they’re actually only two games back of

The Wizards that’s actually not that crazy yeah yeah that’s that’s not that bold of it but they they also will likely make some more deals as they get we see I’m I’m I’m factoring that in I’m factoring in so yeah can I wonder if there’s are there

Like mid-season over unders that you can bet on like is there if if would Vegas put their over under at like 12 and a half right now or something I don’t know that’s a great question I would I would slam that over I don’t know um all right so that was our

Individual Awards these next couple awards are group Awards Andrew which means we have to agree on the winner now I think some of these will be easy for us but some might be tough first we’re going to do the first half major Awards but I have I have a mid-season over

Underline at 11 and a half oh my God 11 and a half are you kidding not kidding oh my gosh I’m liquidating my account tomorrow putting it on the P’s over

The Athletic NBA Show discuss their bold predictions for the 2nd half of the NBA season.