Could Jaden Ivey New Role On The Detroit Pistons Be A Backup Point Guard This Season?

Could Jaden Ivey New Role On The Detroit Pistons Be A Backup Point Guard This Season?

I know you mentioned Tim Hardway Jr mik Beasley and this is just a question I thought off at the top of my head do you think that they got guys like that to try to help Jade Ivy because he when Jade iy can you know hit his shots it’s great but when he’s not hitting three-point shots it’s really glaring out there yeah I don’t know I don’t know what the expected role for Jaden Ivy like is for this season um I don’t expect him to play Summer League or anything obviously um but with the way the roster is currently set up I kind of wonder if he’s the like day one sixth man like backup point guard just because like we we have seen he is more effective with the ball in his hands infamously like it took Monty Williams like five months to figure that out uh but at the same time like if he has the ball um and he’s not always he’s not always the most efficient player he struggles to finish at the and the shooting his shooting like varies very heavily right he’ll have like the was he he was like remember that week like that Sacramento Portland back toback where he made like 13 straight threes or something uh that that but that like elevated his like yearly percentages for like six weeks um so yeah I I do wonder what the role for Jaden Ivy is going to be uh moving forward and I would hope that we get some clarity about that when they actually have the bigger staff presser which I is is coming but yeah the way the roster set up like it looks like they want to do like Cade heavy shooter and then like Wing players and Jaden Ivy is not a heavy shooter and he’s not a wing player so that that leads me to believe like he might be the backup but we we haven’t had that clearly like stated or said so we’ll see and they also like don’t have a backup Point cart right now either so yeah it’s it’s so weird because like before the Beasley signing I was like okay maybe they run you know Kade Ivy back corar and I was just like well maybe they run Kade Tim Hardway Jr Kade Michael Beasley yeah and maybe to your point they’re not signing a backup point guard because I see a lot of people in the chat and even like the group chats that we have everyone’s like on the tus Jones straight right now go get tus Jones go get him as a backup tus Jones for the record has like openly stated he wants to be a starter and so like I don’t think he’s coming to Detroit I think he’s he’s going to look for a situation in which like he can play AE minutes and be a starter so I like I don’t know where that’s going to be because I like him but like I don’t think he’s like a pretty uh pretty like Baseline level starting NBA point guard so like I don’t know who needs that per se but um yeah I I would be very surprised if uh he were to come to Detroit yeah same here even though like there there is that Duke connection there so you never know but um to your point I think you could use C IB as like that six-man or backup point guard role because I think he he thrives better when he has the ball in his hands and you know running a second unit I I think would suit him better than trying to like you know share the ball with Kate and not to say that they can’t play together I think they can it just kind of seems like him playing off ball seems unnatural to him that’s that’s just the way I see it I mean you look at the you look at like the explosion like Cody white uh made in his career right right and a lot of that was him getting comfortable in a bench roll uh two seasons ago only to like finally uh like uh like build on that confidence moving forward start a bunch of games for the Bulls and like have a career year uh last year it’s like maybe that’s the maybe that’s the path for Jaden um come off come off the bench for a year uh figure out how to play like be productive but also like use that time to figure out how to play off the ball a little bit and then uh start off stronger the in two seasons um it’s also possible that like we’re wrong they signed some backup point guard somewhere uh start Kad iy together and and prioritize figuring that out as a point of development um yeah and the other thing is like bicker staff did a very hard stagger of Garland and Mitchell in Cleveland and I don’t know if that was a uh like a coaching policy thing I don’t know if that was something uh that like he wanted to do because it was what was best I don’t know if that’s something he’s married to like the two bigs that he used in Cleveland or if it’s just like this is what the talent we have like this is what we’re going to do and so I’ll be curious to see if like uh if like if they are started like are are Kaden and Ivy starting together but heavily staggered or is Jaden like coming off the bench right was he doing that while robio was still there too or was that after he kind of like retired that was uh they they like hoped he could start this season and uh he retired um so I remember like they had like Craig Porter Jr for a hot second was was playing big minutes for them um but yeah and then like Garland injured his face and everything and so they they’ve they they’ve had a bunch of uh injuries and stuff in Cleveland but I do think there was also something where they were planning on doing uh two seasons ago as well so I mean you could stagger him that that that could work that’s just kind of like I’ve been thinking about it it’s like okay you got two shooting guards and then you drafted IP a couple seasons ago you’re just going to transition him into a point where point guard but I guess we’re gonna have to wait and see what happens I mean free agent I think today’s the last day of free agency isn’t it uh today’s the you can make stuff official okay okay uh starting yesterday at like yesterday night I think so yeah I think that that’s what helps spurred like the D rozan trade I’ve seen um like the uh like the the Mel Bridges trade is official now um so yeah so then you know obviously you can sign guys like all the way up until the season starts so we’ll see

This week On Pistons Talk Podcast, I had Laz Jackson on the show. The question I asked was could we see Jaden Ivey as a backup Point guard for the Detroit Pistons this upcoming season.

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