The Pindown: A Detroit Pistons Podcast

Hey everyone! This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, Ben Gulker and I talk about your 1-5 Detroit Pistons. Ben and I go into how much we loved the decisive, aggressive version of Cade Cunningham we saw against the Atlanta Hawks, talk again about how bad the defense has been, and work through the ramifications of immediately starting Jalen Duren.  As always, we appreci...

Hey everyone! This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, Ben Gulker and I talk about your 1-2 Detroit Pistons. Ben and I go over the bench's struggles offensively, what we've loved about both Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren, and what Saddiq Bey's role on this team is with Bojan Bogdanovic alongside him.  As always, we appreciate your continued support of the podcast, and the b...

Hey everyone! This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's podcast, Ben Gulker and I talk about our preseason takeaway. Ben drops some fun Jaden Ivey stats, some less fun Cade Cunningham stats, and we talk about the defensive issues being more scheme or personnel. (Hint: It's Both. It's not getting better soon. This kinda sucks).  As always, we appreciate your continued support of t...

Hey everyone! This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and we have something special for you; an interview with Mirin Fader about her recent feature piece, A New Dawn of Detroit Basketball, in The Ringer. Mirin and I talked about the collegiate atmosphere of the team (in a good way!), her potential future profile of Jalen Duren, why this wasn't "just" a Cade Cunningham or Jaden Ivey profile, and m...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and we're back! On this week's episode Ben Gulker and I talk about the Bojan Bogdanovic trade, our thoughts on Media Day performance, and dole out some over/unders for your 2022-23 Detroit Pistons. As always, we appreciate your continued support of the podcast, and the best way to do that is to share, subscribe, and leave comments - please lea...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode Ben Gulker and I talk about what we saw from the Pistons in Las Vegas. We go over Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren's obvious athletic gifts, preview Isaiah Stewart and Isaiah Livers' role during the regular season, and Ben has a conspiracy theory about Killian Hayes' summer league appearance. As always, we appreciate your...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode Ben Gulker and I talk about the roster changes the Pistons have made over the course of the early free agency period. Bringing back Hamidou Diallo and Marvin Bagley and bringing in Nerlens Noel and Alec Burks (and Kevin Knox too) points Detroit in the direction we on the pod agree with, but there are still more quest...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode Ben Gulker and I are joined by Sean Murphy of Woodward Pistons to talk about the results of the 2022 NBA Draft. We give our thoughts on the selection of Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren and break down how that impacts Detroit's upcoming free agency plans. And then Ben and Sean laugh at me for being unable to help myself wh...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode we've got something a little different for you: the audio of the 2022 DBB NBA Draft Livestream! Bryce Simon, Steve Pelletier, Brady Fredericksen, Sean Corp, Jack Kelly, and myself talked for hours about the Pistons' night, and we've condensed down the super-relevant parts into this podcast. The TRUE diehards, though,...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode Ben Gulker and I talk about the latest batch of Jerami Grant trade rumors, what lessons the Pistons can take from the two team in the NBA Finals, which player's development is most important for Detroit moving forward, and more.  As always, we appreciate your continued support of the podcast, and the best way to do t...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode Ben Gulker and I talk about the Detroit Pistons' disappointing NBA Draft Lottery results. The Pistons, with the third-best odds, fell two slots to the fifth overall pick; Ben and I try to find the silver lining, run through a quick mock draft, and talk about the eyebrow-raising DeAndre Ayton situation in Phoenix. Cou...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode Ben Gulker and I are joined by DBB's own Steve Pelletier to talk about his NBA Draft Big Board and the prospect he thinks would be the best complement next to Cade Cunningham. We talked about a couple of different prospects inside the top 10 as well; I know you guys will enjoy it.  As always, we appreciate your conti...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode we're talking about your 23-59 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I grade every single Detroit Piston that played more than five games this season (apologies to Carsen Edwards, Derrick Walton Jr., and others) and talk about the playoff teams we're going to be paying attention to this postseason.  As always, we appreciat...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode we're talking about your Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I answer your future-focused Twitter questions! Who's expendable, who's invaluable, who's at the top of the draft, who's in the starting lineup, we answer them all. Thank you to everyone who submitted questions on Twitter; we really appreciate when you all part...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode we're talking about your 20-54 Detroit Pistons. It's Tank Week, so Ben Gulker and I talk about how many games the Pistons can afford to win the rest of the season (Spoiler: Not Many!), why we WANT Cade Cunningham to win Rookie of the Year but won't be mad if he doesn't, give our belated thoughts on Saddiq Bey's 51-po...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode we're talking about your 18-49 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I talk about the Pistons maybe pushing Cade too hard in pursuit of the Rookie of the Year award, Jerami Grant finding his way offensively, the ripple effects of the Isaiah Stewart injury, and Isaiah Livers looking like a real rotation player.  As always,...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode we're talking about your 17-47 Detroit Pistons. And actually it's good that the Pistons are 17-47, because this week Ben Gulker and I bring on Richard Stayman aka @MavsDraft to talk about the top prospects in the 2022 NBA Draft class, and how they fit next to Cade Cunningham on the Detroit Pistons. As always, we appr...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode we're talking about your 14-46 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I talk about what we want to see from the Pistons' last 20ish games of the season, Dwane Casey's plan for Isaiah Stewart, Cade Cunningham winning the Clorox Rising Stars Challenge MVP at All-Star weekend, and Jumpy-Jump Guy Marvin Bagley III.  As the seas...

On the FINAL episode of the Motor City Hoops podcast I am joined by Lauren L. Williams, Pistons beat writer for MLive. We will dive into what we saw from the Pistons in their first 2 games returning from the All Star Break and what Lauren wants to see from the team down the stretch. I can not thank Sean Corp, Lazarus Jackson, Ben Gulker, and all of detroitbadboys.com enough for everything they hav...

On this episode of the Motor City Hoops podcast I am joined by Sham Mohile, contributor at DetroitBadBoys, and major Detroit Piston fan. Sham is a person I have got to know pretty well over the past couple of months and I was so excited to talk All Star Weekend and Detroit basketball with him. We do dive into the aforementioned All Start Weekend to start off the episode with a special emphasis on...

On this episode of Motor City Hoops podcast I bring you my instant recap and reactions to the Pistons Wednesday nights game vs the Celtics. I will give my overall outlook on the game and a rundown of what we saw from the Pistons. I will also give my biggest takeaway, player of the game, play of the game, something to keep an eye on, a few thoughts on the opponent and a look ahead to what comes nex...

On this episode of the Motor City Hoops podcast I am joined by Keith Smith, contributor at Spotrac, CelticsBlog and the FrontOfficeShow. Keith covers the NBA at large and I felt like he would be the perfect guest to break down every trade we saw at the NBA trade deadline. Keith is also your go-to source for NBA salary cap and contract information as we will get him to shed some light on Marvin Bag...

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week's episode we're talking about your 12-44 Detroit Pistons. Jack Kelly returns, joining Ben Gulker and I to talk about the Marvin Bagley III trade, how to make the Jerami Grant / Cade Cunningham / Saddiq Bey trio work, and Killian Hayes' inconsistent week off the bench.  Jack is, fortunately for him, joining up from the States!...

On this episode of the Motor City Hoops podcast I am joined by James Edwards III, Pistons beat writer for The Athletic, to analyze the happenings around the NBA Trade Deadline. What does he think about the trade for Marving Bagley III? Why did Jerami Grant not get moved? What did we learn about Troy Weaver after his 2nd trade deadline? All of this and more will be discussed! You can now find Motor...

On episode 90 of the Motor City Hoops podcast I am joined by Laz Jackson to bring you our instant recap and reactions to the Pistons Thursday trade deadline moves. We will break down and give our immediate reactions and analysis to what we saw from Detroit leading up to and on Thursday. We will finish up the episode by giving a quick analysis of the Pistons game vs the Grizzlies on Thursday night...