The Fatal Flaws of the Eastern Conference Contenders! Plus, Awards and TV Talk!

Lowestepped up here and there in the playoffs but i'm talking about like an elimination game in a late round series okay my next tier of like faith level to avoid the top six apologies to atlanta does not include them i think you're higher on the hawks than i am includes six teams. Detroit, Philadelphia, Toronto, Miami, Indiana, and Orlando is in this tier for me.

LoweAnd you can throw Atlanta in if you want. Okay, let's just go one by one. Fox Mulder concerns, fatal flaws. Detroit Pistons, Kirk Goldsberry, what are you concerned about? The Jalen, excuse

Goldsberryme, folks. The Jalen Dern vibes, I would say is my number one concern. My number two concern is the loss of Tobias Harris for an offense that was already pretty one -dimensional. and you can try to talk me into anything they did this summer to correct that fatal flaw from last year, I don't buy it.

GoldsberrySo between the cultural sort of sketchiness of this Durant situation and the loss of Tobias, I don't think this team is going to be able to score enough to beat the other better teams in the Eastern Conference.

LoweThe spacing issues, well known, the chemistry issues, we'll see. I'm concerned about their rim defense without Isaiah Stewart, who just they just kind of gave away and they're they're both both the amount of shots they allowed at the rim and the opponent shooting percentage on those shots was like night and day with steward on the floor versus off the floor they they have shooting but a lot of their shooting is is is contained in like pretty duplicative players you

Loweknow duncan robinson isaiah joe kevin hurter like how many of those guys are going to be on the floor at the same time for how long and john John Collins is kind of the wild card there. They feel like a team that in letting Tobias Harris walk and replacing him with John Collins and letting Stewart dumping Stewart kind of like was like, yeah, 60 wins last year in a year where a third of the league was tanking.

LoweI'm not sure we're really that ready yet. And we'll, maybe we'll take a small step back to take a bigger step forward. They do have all their picks to trade and a bunch of trade assets.