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Detroit’s opening-night comeback sets the tone, but the bigger takeaway is that the Pistons still need more offense next to Cade Cunningham. The Red Wings’ early-season form and a massive Lions-Packers divisional showdown round out a Detroit-heavy rundown with real stakes.
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I know we're doing this a little later than usual, but we had to see how that Pistons game turned out
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I'm Dustin Fiocca with Detroit Sports Nation. Time for your daily rundown on Tuesday
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How about we start off talking about the Pistons who, man, could you ask for a more exciting season opener from them at LCA
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Pistons and Celtics. You saw that second quarter. It was neck and neck entering into quarter number two
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And all of my fears with this Pistons offense not being good enough came to reality
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Scratch that late in the third quarter. Boy, did they come alive. Kind of resembling to what we saw in that Orlando game in the playoffs
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Third quarter and fourth quarter dominance out of the Pistons. Coming back after trailing by 22 points to win it
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And when I say come back, I'm talking about a 20 plus 0 run against a good Celtics team
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Now I'm not going to overreact after the win. It was their first game of the year. They started off
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with a win against a good team. I have to give credit where credit is due. I'm still strongly
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advising that this Pistons team should have gotten another scorer opposite of Cade Cunningham
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though he had a great game Jalen Duren good game for Duren I going to touch on him in two in a little bit but he had a good game I probably going to see a lot more good games out of him this year but I can buy fully into him until he does it in the playoffs That where he needs to prove me wrong because I don
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think he's capable of doing it when it's crunch time. But how about performances out of Javante
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Green? How about performances out of Duncan Robinson? If we get that kind of three-point
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shooting all season long from them, this team ceiling could be higher than I originally gave
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them credit for. It was a good win. Don't want to overreact, but I loved what I saw out of them
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Do want to talk a little bit more about the Pistons on a separate note, because following
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the post game, we got an article on this. Jalen Durek commenting on, he wasn't really too concerned
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about getting some negative fan backlash for this opener, because the real Pistons fans know that
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J.D. loves this team and wants to be here. And yippee, whoopity-doo, I got a picture of the Detroit Pistons printed on my hiney
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Nobody's buying that, J.D. You wanted the max contract. You wanted more than you were worth
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It didn't matter to you where you ended up. I don't think true Pistons fans are buying that bull
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You got your contract, bravo. Go out and earn it. Go out and prove it
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But don play the BS card of you always wanted to be here in Detroit You only wanted to be a Piston because we not buying that We got the article to highlight what he said to the media Make sure you check it out But Jalen Durant we know you wanted that bag It was the Pistons that gave you the biggest bag you could carry Now let talk
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about another Detroit team. How about the Red Wings who look to make it 2-0 for our teams tonight
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They've got a game against Seattle. Red Wings, not a great start to their season. Also not a horrible
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start. They did win their last two games, looking to make it 3-0 against the Seattle Kraken in a
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late-night hockey game tonight. And this is kind of one of those tipping point games. I think if
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they lose this game, you can say it's been a bad start to the season. If they win this game, maybe
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you can make an argument that it's been a surprisingly good start. It's been wins and losses
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coming in bunches. If the Red Wings can come away with a third straight victory here today
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I will be thrilled. I'll be happy to see it. Still expectations for this hockey team are very, very low
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But maybe they can do exactly what the Pistons did earlier today, and they can get a win
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Three wins in a row would be nice to see. And now we're going to end talking about our Lions, because this Sunday it is the biggest game thus far on the young season
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Lions taking on the Packers. 430 game, and this is going to be a big one
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Brian Branch coming back for this defense and that the jolt this defense has been waiting for all season long They finally had a good showing against Arizona And again people want to say it just Arizona
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They just beat the Rams, okay? They just scored six times against the Rams
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You only gave up three scoring drives against the Cardinals. I'm not saying the Cardinals are great
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I'm just saying they're not as bad as the record may indicate. Lions defense deserves some credit for that game
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And they're going to get some help now with Brian Branch in the lineup against the Packers
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It's the first divisional matchup. Packers, they had their own successful Sunday, a big win against the Cowboys in dominant fashion
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They had a dominant win over the Bears as well. So they're going into that game with a lot of momentum
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But so are the Lions. This is one of those games. I know the Vikings are being pesky with an undefeated record
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They had their bye week too. But this is the game that could be a real tipping point for the Lions
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They win this game. You've got to like their chances to win the North. They lose this game. The rest of the North has looked strong
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You start off your divisional matchups with a loss to the Packers. It's going to be a really steep hill to climb yourself back into it
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Those are my thoughts. I'd love to hear from you. So drop them in the comments, like and share
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I'm Dustin Fiocco. It's been your daily rundown here on Detroit Sports Nation
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