He Can't Keep Getting Away With THIS...

He can't keep doing this. The Wizards and the Pistons battled in a double overtime thriller, and LaMelo Ball took Cooper Flag to school. LaMelo Ball working against Cooper Flagg in isolation. Just 4 games on a Thursday night but a lot of exciting ones. Let's start with the thriller in Detroit between the Pistons and the Wizards. Both teams were trading blocks, alley-oop jams, Davis on the feed from Trey Johnson. Inside five minutes to play here in the first half. Good feed and throwing it down. timely shots by their main guys, you name it. Up there around 57% right now, just recognition like that. So we're entering the clutch with the Pistons up by 4 points and Asar Thompson's great defensive instinct. Turn around, shot bothered, rejected by Asar Thompson and Cade. Navigating the floor, into the corner, Duncan Robinson, back iron no good, and so Thompson fights to keep it alive. Asar gets the block on one end and then saves the ball on the other which brings the Pistons a 6 point lead. Then Trae Young makes the defense collapse on the penetration before kicking the ball out to Asar for the splash. The Wizards took one more point off the deficit when Asar failed to answer Trae's free throws He throws in the clutch, setting the stage up for this. Sar finds the wide open George up top who nails the three to take over the lead and send the fans into a delirium. Needing a stop, the wizards weren't gonna give Cade anything easy, even if they had to bleed for it. Oh, AJ got the short end of the stick on that collision with Cade. A mouthful of blood for De Bonza and a couple of free throws for Cunningham, who stays collected and nails both to get back on top. And here's everything that's wrong with the Wizards in one play. Trae Young still wants to play hero ball like he used to do it in Atlanta. Cade doesn't bite on Trae's clumsiness and puts his team in a great position to win it all. He gets fouled with 1.8 seconds on the clock and prolongs to hit both free throws like it's practice and not a do or die scenario on the road. So down by 3, let's see if Young can redeem himself. Man, just when you think it's over, he's gonna pull an ace out of his sleeve and shock everybody. To be completely fair though, Trey had a pretty nice game till that point, going toe to toe with Cunningham. And pumped up from his heroics, the Wizards struck first in overtime. Young, beautiful pass. Davis, the two veterans. Davis, to Sarr. Big alley-oop. J.B. Bickerstaff says enough is enough. Washington goes on a 7-0 blitz to start the extra period, forcing Detroit to activate Code Red. Cade, Duncan Robinson, and Dennis Jenkins, but Cade to take the long two, and then a chip it down to five. Can the Pistons make him pay? Cade, great screen, Cade into the lane through contact. Two more free throws coming his way. A year ago Tuesday, Cade had the career-high 46 against these guys. He's sitting on 44. There's the steal. Banas to Cade with momentum. Cade. The Pistons returned the blow with a 6-0 run of their own to get right back into it. So with the entire arena on its feet, Trae and AD make him explode. Trae Young splits defenders, tosses it up, and Anthony Davis flushes it home. Young even had a chance to make it a two-possession game right here, but he and Koulibaly misunderstood each other so the punishment arrived quickly. And here come the Pistons with a chance. Cunningham silenced the crowd with his 47th point of the night and things kept getting worse for the Wizards because… Robinson nails another 3 off of Trae's miss and now all of a sudden, the Pistons have a 3 point lead with 9 seconds on the clock. Or so they thought. You see, with the latest courtIQ technology, it appears that the shadow of Duncan's shoe is touching the line which overturned the 3 into a 2 pointer. The Pistons bench clearly wasn't approving of that cause if you judge solely by the replay, it looked like a 3 for Christ's sake. Anyway, the Wizards were put to the test once again. Can they come up with another miracle? My goodness, the rookie sends the game into double overtime after a lousy 1 of 8 shooting thus far. What a rollercoaster over game. So it was Detroit's time to serve the first punch. Asar was all over the place last night, posting a triple-double to go along with his three blocks and steals. That's phenomenal. On the other end, Alex Saar had himself a ball game as well, cutting the deficit to just 3 with his 30th point of the night right here. And he came up with a crucial stop on defense, first by rejecting Reid's attempt and then by winning the jump ball for his team. Down 4 with less than 80 seconds left, Trey tries a risky pass. Geez, the Wizards just won't go away, and after another great defense by Sard, they even had a chance to go all by one, when… Washington with it, chance to tie, potentially take the lead. Washington got what they wanted. They got it out of Kane's hands and forced it someplace else and got a stop. Trey Johnson for three, no good. Paul Reed going high for the rebound, a big rebound. This is it, time winding down, you want the ball in the hands of your best player, it's go time. Cunningham puts Detroit on his shoulders in the clutch and with his 52nd point of the night gives them a two possession lead. This has to be enough for the win, right? Well… Trae Young, deep three from the logo. Short. Saar back to Young for three. That one's off the mark. Fighting for the rebound. Trae gets it back again, and Trae. Wow, Young gets not 1, not 2, but 3 chances to cut the lead and misses all of them. At least he drew the foul and made both free throws, but now they have to play the penalty game. And the Pistons put the ball in the hands of Kevin Herter who stays ice cool on the line to finally seal the deal for his team. At the end, Cade made some history becoming the first player ever with 50 plus points, 10 plus assists and 0 turnovers in a game. Meanwhile, the Wizards came out empty handed for the 6th straight game. Man, that was a marathon. So let's chill out a little bit with Jakob Purtl trying to rescue a ball with a mop in Philly. And that one goes over the backboard, and it's just sitting up there. I've got to check the air pressure of the basketball. It's bouncy basketball. And now look at Jakob being so helpful. He's got the broom handle out, trying to poke it. One more time, Jakob, one more time. Don't embarrass yourself, Jakob. They're going to kill you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're already booing when the first one just moved down to the left. Come on, that's too harsh, Philly fans. Give my boy Purtl a little slack, will ya? The Raptors built a surprising 17-point lead in the first period when the Sixers finally woke up. Tapped ahead by Caldwell-Pope. Maxey, behind the back, back to his right, flipped up. Caldwell-Pope, Simons, to beat the horn. And he does! Simon says let me cut the deficit to 6 points real quick. And the best thing for the home crowd was that the avalanche just got rolling. VJ Edgecombe rocks the entire arena with the monster slam in transition. He capped off an incredible 19-1 stretch for the Sixers to go from minus 17 to up by one in a span of four minutes. From that point on, it was a well-balanced game until Maxi and Brown triggered another run. Rebound picked up by Walker. Got him. Jalen Brown. The spin baseline keeps it in again. Skip pass. Simons. Got it. Poked away by Brown. And gave Philly a huge boost off the bench scoring 17 points on 67% efficiency. They used a 16-2 run that stretched from late in the 3rd till early in the 4th to go up by 14 points. And once they built a double-digit lead, they never looked back. In the absence of LeBron, the rest of the Fab 5 combined for 80 points on solid efficiency to keep the Sixers in the race for the top spot. And LaMelo Ball got the Wolves racing lately. Melo made it rain from downtown, hitting 6 threes out of 10 shots last night. And this one over Cooper Flagg was the most nonchalant of all. He was cooking Cooper on multiple occasions, but he also got his teammates involved. The Wolves completely took off in the third quarter, going from plus 15 to plus 34 by the end of it. Melo finished the game with 22 points and 9 dimes, while Bows Highland added 24 off the bench on a sizzling 5 of 6 from long range. Moving on to Phoenix now, where Devin Booker was just as hot. The Suns took a 17 point lead in the first half behind Book's hot shooting, but the Hornets still made things interesting in the clutch when… Diabate makes it a 3 point game but Booker wasn't stressed at all because he knew he had it in him. D-Book hits what many thought would be the dagger but Royce O'Neal on the other end returns the favor immediately. Royce completes the four-point play to cut the deficit to just two with 21 seconds still on the clock. This is not over yet. However, instead of playing pressure defense, Allen fouls Bridges who keeps his cool and hits both shots to make it a two-possession game. And things went from bad to worse for Grayson quickly on the next play. Inbounding to Allen. Booker steps in, gets the steal. Booker steals the pass and finishes the job on the other end with his 30th point of the night. He's been carrying the Suns lately, putting up 27 points per night over the last 5 games, winning 4 of them. And believe it or not, he passed Tracy McGrady on the all-time scoring list as well. That's crazy. And just yesterday, the NBA went completely nuts. Click right here to see exactly what happened and talk to you in the next one. Peace out. Oh my God, that was a brick, but we got the reload.