The Detroit Pistons are SHOWING THEIR POTENTIAL

The Detroit Pistons are SHOWING THEIR POTENTIAL

Yes I want to continue the uh Detroit Pistons talk because Spencer rexter asked a very interesting question that I would love to get Lindsey Hunter’s opinion on I think this is something that might turn polarizing amongst Pistons fans as the weeks go on and just for the record jayen ivy in the last

Couple of games and the the Pistons two game winning streak he can’t miss from three and he’s been their best player on both of them but that has uh led the question to be asked I Jaylen dur been the best player last time 20 27 22

That’s fair that’s fair and he was n of 10 from the free throw line which was love to see that can you blame me though for saying someone who shot Seven of seven from three okay we they they they I can agree Duren and I and ivy last

Night love you guys it was beautiful but uh Lindsay are the pitons better off letting Ivy be the Batman to Cades Robin let Kade be Robin yes yeah so Kade is the two no stop come on guys K Kade Kade is is the best player on the

Pistons team and I think regardless to how you stack it up when he’s back in the lineup the numbers will show that and the fact that he’s such a multi-talented guy you know with assist and rebounds and all the other stuff he does it’ll show that he’s the best guy

Now I think if if Jaden ivy can play at a high level for you know and keep Rising the rest of his career then we’ll have a dynamic duo or a dynamic Trio um but I I I think kage still has room to get better yeah and of course we know

Jaden Ivy does also along with Duran so those guys if they can grow and keep growing and getting better then we’ll have a dynamic duo how what is their ceiling that that’s my question like what is their ceiling like yeah can Kade can Kade average over 25 a game you know

25 six and six let’s say something like that can he be one of those guys can can can can Jaden Ivy be 20 plus a night with with five or six assists you know I I think we know what durren is Duran can be 20 and 10 beast that’s he can be 20

And 10 that’s all we need from him yeah I mean 20 and 10 that’s Hall of Fame numberb and three blocks right yeah so so if those guys can raise their level of play to that then you’re looking at something that you can bu say okay we

Legitimately have three guys that we can build around and and don’t forget about my boy Sasser speaking of guys who played well last that that guy when given the time spark PL he can get it done I don’t care what you say the kid can guard he can

Def he he can put it on the floor he can catch and shoot he can get to the rim he he got it you just got to let him cook I heard Greg say last night during the broadcast he’s shooting 53% from three on the road Jesus you know how hard that

Is yeah on the road 53% from three even at home that’s that’s amazing if you do that you’re the best shooter who ever lived serious right so speaking of the best shooter I just got to throw this in did you guys see Steph last night man the chef had it again those damn

Warriors just won’t go away no they’re gone but he’s not I mean they’re they’re they’re they’re gone in terms of being a championship Contender but i’ kind of like them to bow out of the playoffs this year but I don’t think that’s going to happen I don’t think they’re going to

Make it I don’t think you don’t think they’ll make the playoffs no what are they 11th right now I think so yeah yeah they’re 11th yeah they look pretty good their last couple of games though but kg go ahead no so I wanted to ask you this

Lindsay because a lot of narratives been going around since the trade deadline do you think Kay and ivy can play together cuz I I see that being a big topic of debate of whether their games actually fit together once they’re both on the floor what do you think about that see I

I think so but that’s more coaching than anything else than than playing that that’s you know figuring out um how to get your guys to match what what sets are we running for certain guys how we’re going to use them in particular situations that’s not all about cuz as a

Player I’m out here to do what I do right right look I this is how I play coach you better figure out how to get me you know in my situations you know so especially when you look when you play with I play with some great players yeah they didn’t give a damn

About how you felt about them playing next to you all all they cared about was look here you better give me this ball in this spot or in this situation as much as possible or I’m going to get it myself you know what I’m saying yeah

That’s how those guys are wired you know play with Rip Hamilton rip didn’t give a damn about nothing but hey set these screens so I can come off these curls and Chon you better deliver that ball right here yeah that’s all he cared about so if it was your choice who would

You have playing off ball or or running the offense would you have K running the offense or would you have Ivy running the offense I don’t I think it matters okay I don’t think that part matters I just think you have to have a offense with some fluidity in it that whoever

Initiates it it really doesn’t matter as long as it’s playing to their strengths yeah you know we we talked about this yesterday on the heavyweights and I said I still think kade’s the Batman CU like you said he is the best player on the team but maybe it’s time to let Ivy be

The point guard let Ivy be the point guard and then at the end of games and crunch time situations you let Kade do the take the ball the court be the guy take over but in the beginning of games obviously it doesn’t have to be 100% Ivy

But let Ivy take the ball up the floor a little bit more than what he has been doing well I I think definitely in transition yes yeah you get you get him in the in the you get him give him the ball in open court and he’s phenomenal

Cuz he’s still you know watching him in half court he struggles a little bit decision making when you know making the reads off picking rolls he he has to grow in that area but you get him some space and let him play in open court he

Does his thing and can K get some goddamn calls please man he was getting smacked in the face dude dude hey stop it they’re not going to get calls right now you’re the worst team in the league he’s literally getting SM in the face spinny I’ve been there yeah I’ve been on

The worst [ __ ] team when you get clobbered and the ref does this to you get up yeah and you looking like it’s a [ __ ] foul and then calls it Tech on you yes right dude you don’t I’m serious you don’t get calls when you’re not good

It’s not fair I I mean I’m so glad that you’re here though to uh give that voice as somebody who’s experienced that cuz uh yeah we can all see that Kate Cunningham deserves more calls but as long as they’re the worst team in the league I mean what nobody cares dude

They treat you like a sacrificial lamb everywhere you go oh they’re going to lose anyway so we’re not giving them [ __ ] yeah and at that point unfortunately that’s where the Pistons are at that’s that’s what happens when you are the uh worst team in the league

I I got a question to pose for uh for for you Lindsay because you expected this team to compete for a play and I’m not trying to remind you or like or like d I I fess up to it cuz I this is my team I roll with the Pistons good better and

Different I’m a DI hard Pistons fan and we can be we can lose 65 games in a row and I’m still going to fight for my team I’m going to talk [ __ ] about him because I’m mad at them but I’m still going to fight for him well and just to make you

Feel better I predicted them to win between 30 and 35 and that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen yeah I I think we all did because because we see some of the players that they drafted and we were excited about and even a guy like

Marcus casser who we hadn’t seen play up to before this year we see him when he’s on the court and you see his numbers and you’re like man this guy’s really good you see what assar Thompson can at least give you defensively and at the beginning of the year he was putting up

Numbers with points rebounds assists he just right now is a terrible three-point shooter but he’s not shooting very many of them I guess the question is as we’re talking about Cade and Ivy is this the type of core in terms of drafted players that can eventually bring the Pistons to

More winning ways because I for one am shocked that they are as bad as they are with the collection of young talent that they have you’d think that they would at worst be normal bad not worst te it was never supposed to be this bad no that

Was my biggest concern I’m like dude why is every you know I I I love I love young basketball players I love to see young guys come up and do well but when we’re looking at a team that’s historically bad MH you got to start thinking like okay do we break this up

Do we try to make some moves and add some you know some some more Superior talented guys you know proven guys or do we wait this out that’s a big decision to make now if if we had wiim Bama on this team then I would be like don’t

Worry about it right we’re going to be good we’re going to be fine yeah but we don’t have that you know 73 freak we should have stay NBA for you you know so that’s my thing I I’m I’m skeptical about like how how good can we be like are we

Going to mature and be just regular bad well not historically bad they have at a stretch the LA their last 12 games where they’ve gone five and seven is that a sign of things to come to end the season yeah where maybe you they can be pushing

20 wins or something I know that that’s not what we wanted coming into the year but considering the way that they started there was times where people thought they might break the record they might win seven or eight games now it’s looking like that’s at least not going

To happen but it’s not good right now but you still see some promise with that core it’s just I don’t think what any what they did on the trade deadline really excited anybody I I I like it to the point where like I said I think the

Bench rotation got better and I think what I talk about what I liked with the Knicks and what they did at the trade deadline how at the end of the year they’re going to be able to run four out yeah you know with with uh OG Randall

Burks bogey all on the outside and let Brunson go one-on-one at the end of games and kick it out to Shooters I think the Pistons can do that to a point as well with fetuccini with Grimes with Ivy and then you have Duran as a lob threat and you can let Kate go

One-on-one with somebody at the it’s the floor is going to be spaced a lot better and the Defenders you have now are better than what you had it’s not life changing but I do think the the bench rotation got better are you concerned at all Spenny and I’ll I’ll throw this to

You too Lindsay that uh about Quinton Grimes because a couple years ago not not this year but last year I thought that he was very valuable to that Knicks team but this season he just been in the doghouse a little bit hasn’t quite put up the numbers is that something that’s

Indicative of who he is as a player or is it just a bad stretch and he could use a change of scenery well you know playing for tibs is difficult yes yeah oh yeah yeah that man and that’s why I I laugh at you know uh spinny and the Knicks fans who think

They’re going to do something in the playoffs because they’re going to be burned out this uh tibs is going to run that team in the ground that’s what he with the bulls every single year year look when when Derrick Rose got hurt he shouldn’t have been in the game yes no

He shouldn’t have they were up they were with the the game over that’s right he they were and they kept because I’mma tell you something and I and I’m not telling you something I heard I know this tibs is so concerned about his defensive efficiency he’s going to leave

His starters in as long as possible to make sure that his defensive efficiency doesn’t take a dip and unfor he does it all the time he won’t change because to him that’s a badge of honor I have the best defense in the league of Honor instead of winning the game and letting

The stats take care of themselves that’s tibs and and if if if it cost him to run his guys in the ground that’s what it is and even in in in his practices dude he wants them to go hard in shoot rounds yeah when rip went to Chicago when Rip

Hamilton went to Chicago after he left here he was like dude we had to get taped and shoot around I was like what the hell going on but that’s TBS he has that old school yeah mentality approach well and tibs hasn’t won anything had a lot of regular Seasons

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