It’s on the general manager to put his young players in a position to succeed and not just trot a team out there and play the long game with an entire roster at once. The Mavericks didn’t have Doncic out there with a bunch of equally young players when they first added him to the roster, so the Pistons are doing Cunningham and Co. a disservice, if anything, by having so little experience around their young core. Consider this: 12 players on Detroit’s roster are within their first four seasons in the NBA. Two of the remaining six are Bagley and Kevin Knox, both still young, neither proven in the NBA or the leader types.
Ultimately, bad habits are hard to break, and the Pistons are developing a ton of them right now, which falls on the feet of Weaver.
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There's a line there that I think is very telling, and it's that Cade was projected to be the "American Luka Doncic." I think what people are learning now is that it's almost impossible to have an American Luka, because the European basketball journey was an essential part of his development. By the time he entered the NBA at 19, Luka had already played more professional games in Europe (180) than last night's entire starting 5 (Killian, Cade, Livers, Stewart, and Duren) started in their rookie years combined (132). You can't really remove that journey from Luka and get the same result. Conversely, you can't expect someone like Cade to play one year of college ball and be able to command a heliocentric offense immediately. Again, Luka had already played 180 games against grown men from the time he was like 15 when he entered the NBA, meanwhile Cade's in his third season in the NBA and hasn't even cracked 100 games yet. I think this experiment to replicate Luka in America was destined to fail. All that said, I think Cade is a fantastic basketball player, even if he has several elements of his game that still need quite a bit of work. I say we need to free Cade from the expectation of saving this team on his own, allow him to play like a normal NBA player, and put some pieces around him that can just help him, in large part just by carrying their own weight.
Oh, and maybe keep on letting Killian be the player he's meant to be by playing him as the primary ball handler for Cade (and maybe Ivey). He deserves some love and support too.