The Detroit Pistons Have Had a FIRE Lit Under Them!

The Detroit Pistons Have Had a FIRE Lit Under Them!

You can be a bad team but you can’t let that happen if you’re younger more energized all this team had too much hope to be the the the less uh energized team so I love to hear that what was your takea away from what beu had to say

Back to you I think one of the most key statements or phrases in that is I love how the new guys when you hear that he’s already talking about and putting a differentiation between the players that were here before and the players that are here now and what was the biggest

Difference the veterans you look at what boan doing you look at what Alec Burks is doing New York Knicks fans they’re like yo do these guys play any type of Defense right now are they pissed they’re pissed wow they think that they got a little bit fleece man because you

Know you’re paying boan bonovich not just this year but next year $20 million he’s still in the books for next season Alec Burks was a player that they thought hey he was here before maybe we can resign him I don’t think that that’s going to be the case he’s averaging

Under 10 points per game and the defense is looking very very shoty they got rid of a lot of the veterans a lot of the people that Monty Williams in a lineup would love to be able to rely on and now they brought in guys like Simone fio

Who’s played fabulous you want to talk about swapping out a Knox swapping out a boan banovich swapping out an Alec Burks and really giving those minut to Sone fio he’s just been way more efficient he’s played a lot better defense and he’s shot the ball he shot the lights

Out the ball man from behind the ark uh and those are the types of things when you look at Beef St there there were other questions asked to him as well about do you kind of like the way that the NBA is being called right now he’s

Like you know what if they’re going to let us play physical of course I do and he believes it has a lot to do with the players that they have right now that makes them more confident in that and look to take a page out of Mr Sam

Flannel Reynolds books here I do got some stats to back up that the Detroit Pistons that the Detroit Pistons are taking a step forward man steals per game is up from 5.8 to 7.1 per game that’s last in NBA to number 22 in the NBA since the trade deadline since the

Trade deadline versus the beginning of the Season up until February 8th the rebounds per game with 43.2 up to 45.8 that’s number 16 in the league up to number five in the NBA nice the defensive rating and I wrote an article about this what’s the difference between

Where the Orlando Magic are right now with their rebuild relying on young players and the Detroit Pistons their offensive ratings are largely the same but the defensive rating the Pistons were dead last in defensive uh rating at 122 uh per game do you guys know where

They are right now or where you think they ranking NBA since the trade deadline probably like 24th 25th they ranked 16th in the NBA right now since tra deadline in defensive rating they’re down to 1148 which is similar to what the Orlando Magic have if they started

The year like this you’re looking at a much better team yeah um their field goal percentage their field goal is attempted they’ve gone from 17th in the NBA to five in the NBA which means they’re getting up a few more shots per game which is increasing their pace and

What I really liked is these new players not only did they help to improve what Detroit’s doing on on the defensive end hustling getting the steals getting out on fast breaks they look to be a faster team they look to be more just fundamentally sound defensively not only

Did that help uh the defense overall but Cade Cunningham talk to me since the trade deadline and I’m telling you guys Kade is him his offensive rating has gone from 107.8 which was number 385 in the league to um to now 12.2 offensive rating which is

Number 47th in the NBA this man has had over 30 almost 40 Point 340 spot jump in his offensive rating since they’ve given this man a little bit better Shooters a little bit better Defenders he doesn’t have to do as much his his usage rate we

Kept saying he cannot be at a 30 uh 30.0 usage rate you need to get that down really to like 23 to 25 it is coming down now he’s at 28 it’s dropped a couple points field goal percentage from 44 points per 44% per game up to 55% per

Game since the trade deadline three-point percentage 33.9 up to 46.2 and his rebounds jumped up about 1 and a half as well you’re looking at a absolute kind of Renaissance as it relates to how this team is playing and when you look at the record over the

Last eight it stinks that they’re two and six in the last eight because two of those losses could have easily been wins when you look at the New York Knicks game and when you look at uh the Orlando Magic game they could be 500 and you know who they’ve largely played playoff

Teams the Phoenix Suns the LA Lakers the LA Clippers the New York Knicks the Orlando Magic the Portland Trailblazers these are the teams that they’ve played over this stretch of games in which realistically if things were called the right way you’re looking at a team that’s been 500 since the trade deadline

And all of the numbers are trending towards the Detroit Pistons realistically finally at least at a foundational basis doing the things that have always been the underpinnings for a successful Detroit Pistons team it should give you a little bit more hope as it relates to where this thing is

Going I I get it people want to see a little bit better out of the rotations from a Williams people want to see better out of Troy Weaver he’s not resolved from criticism here you waited this long to be able to bring in the right types of players to surround these

Guys this should have been from the beginning of the season that’s just point blank period it’s still not complete yeah what what you talking about it’s still not complete yeah it’s not it’s not you they got some steps to take they have some serious steps to

Take and I don’t believe it’s on the players any longer when you see kind of your your star your leader in K Cunningham respond very favorably to the move moves that have happened it’s not because now all of a sudden he say okay let me play no his usage was up to 30

Yeah he was playing he had the ball in his hands but when the whole entire defense says we we can crash on this guy cuz we don’t trust anybody else on this roster then that’s a that’s a problem that front office has to fix and they

Have to solt and going to the next season don’t r on your laurels we want to see these players take a step forward in their development but go out there and grab a couple players that you know can contribute on both ends of the floor the guys that they traded out you look

At their deficien their their defensive efficiency it is trash compared to what they have right now I don’t know what they were looking at prior because all the stuff all the stuff you can easily look up you can easily look up I don’t know if they just thought hey in an

Offensive League we’re going to go out there and have a better offense than other teams well we’ll get boan Alec Burks get some of these guys that can shoot some threes this is Detroit baby that has never been how it’s done and you look at this they made a move to

Improve the defense and their offensive efficiency improved as well isn’t that a weird concept it’s a weird concept and like you said this isn’t the finishing Pro the finished product this isn’t the team that’s going to be in the playoffs one day but this is the foundation some

Of these players they brought in are just resetting almost the floor where they’re they’re they’re building that culture it’s not I’m not going to compare it to the Lions quite yet like that takes some time but just in terms of developing that type of culture that gritty mentality that going to work

Pistons mentality even if they’re not on your roster next year you at least need those guys uh like fetuccini like Simone fio who can play three and D not just three you got to have a d and Simone is KH boy Sone fanto and quinon Grimes these are two guys that are highly

Confident you see them kind of walking around the gym and you can tell These Guys these guys want to help bring this team to winning they feel like they’re wanted now uh the New York ncks kind of sheld Quinton Grimes the Utah Jazz with in his RFA year his restricted free

Agency year just said hey we’re not bringing you back he’s saying he wants to put down Roots here and that’s what you want to hear that’s what you want to hear about the guys that are here not only do they want to be here but they

Want to do it the way that Detroit does it as well uh a couple other things um I think we got the video of assar Thompson we could play as well love to see he’s trying to expand his game right now I believe and I’ve been saying this since

The beginning of the year if you want to get the best out of assar Thompson your number five draft pick you got to get him busy in the midrange earlier in the season his shot did not look as good it looked a lot more line drive it he has a

Little bit more Arc to it now he’s a lot more consistent even in practice as well and honestly I’m telling you guys in the beginning of the Season it was all three-point shooting three-point shooting three-point shooting three-point shooting now they’re getting him out and doing a little bit more

Dribble drive moves mid-range moves you know his pet move is when he kind of puts his back to the basket in the mid-range and he does a little turnaround he seems to be really really comfortable with that but these are the types of things that he was going

Through yesterday uh and it’s really honestly a good thing to see yeah I I love seeing him develop the mid-range and and of course over time in the long run we want to see him improve his three-point shooting but in this year one let’s just see him get comfortable

Making some baskets seeing the ball go through the hoop we talked about or we’ve been talking football for so long uh over the last couple months but you think about the difference in the the levels that having a guy like Aman Ross Aman rosin Brown and Sam leapor in the

Middle needing that deep threat from Jameson Williams or any deep threat you know just to spread out the field it keeps them honest in the middle if you you need the same same thing in basketball too you need someone to control the mid-range or at least be a threat especially someone like assar

Thompson who’s such a good cutter he’s so athletic if he can cut if you if he’s just going to go to the hole every single time you can prepare for that you you know what’s coming but if you have to worry about him catching and shooting

Just from the free throw line that’s one extra Split Second that you got to take to think maybe that’s a a a Flinch forward from a Defender that allows him to get to the basket or he starts making that uh that shot at the elbow I’d love to see it

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