Joe Berry
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All-Defense Team Defender als Rookie!!!
Free Ivey!
Free Ivey!
In welchem Jahr denn? Die Pistons stehen bei 2-11 und sind schon wieder Schlußlicht im Osten.Ich denke, aus dem Team kann ein Playoff Kandidat werden, wenn Duren fit bleibt.
Die NBA muss sich überlegen eine Art "Lottery" einzuführen um eine Art Chancengleichheit für schwächere Teams herzustellen (z.B. beim Draft) - Oh wait....
Ja echt schlimm nur den 5. Besten College Spieler wählen zu können...Bei der man dann z.B. von 1 auf 5 fallen kann. Oh wait…
Darauf wird er keine Antwort finden. Die Spieler, die er reingeworfen hat, werden die Pacers 0 interessieren. Hield wird sich auch nicht darum reißen, zu den Pistons getraded zu werden. Sehe gerade auch keinen Contender für Hield und solange die Pacers oben mitspielen, hilft er dem Team sehr mit seinem 3er.Warum sollten die Pacers das denn machen?
"What does Detroit do to try and start making real progress?" -- Andrew
In fairness to the Pistons, they have added some quality veterans to their group, only to see the most important of those players (Bojan Bogdanovic and Monte Morris) both miss the start of the season due to injury -- compromising their floor spacing. Of Detroit's current starting five, only power forward Isaiah Stewart is shooting better than 33% from 3.
This puts Cunningham in the opposite situation of Houston's young talent where a lack of floor spacing is shrinking his opportunities. Based on DARKO projections of current player talent, just two NBA rotation players are playing in lineups with lower 3-point attempt rates around them than Cunningham: teammate Stewart and LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets.
With the loss of Morris' playmaking ability, Cunningham's shot diet is 10th-hardest in the league among players with at least 100 attempts according to Second Spectrum's quantified shot quality (qSQ) metric. Cunningham got substantially easier shots as a rookie when he was teamed with more willing 3-point shooters Saddiq Bey and Jerami Grant.
Despite his 44% start from 3-point range, Stewart is also suffering from exclusively playing with another post player. Stewart's rebound and block numbers have dipped, leaving him less valuable according to all-in-one player metrics after signing a long-term extension last summer.
The good news is Detroit's rookies are shining. In the recent Rookie Power Rankings I did with Bobby Marks, we placed Ausar Thompson third and Marcus Sasser fourth. Additionally, the Pistons have been more competitive than their record shows. Their minus-4.6 point differential ranks 24th in the league, which counts as progress for a team that was 29th a year ago.
Detroit could look far more functional with Bogdanovic and Morris, particularly if Williams is willing to play Bogdanovic at power forward to keep Thompson in the starting lineup. That would push Stewart to a bench role, which better fits his skill set. Ideally, Morris would cut into the minutes of starting point guard Killian Hayes rather than Sasser and 2022 lottery pick Jaden Ivey, who's shown progress in Year 2 after losing his starting job.
Down the road, the Pistons have the opportunity to make a Rockets-style splash in free agency with several large contracts coming off their books next summer, including $20 million for Joe Harris and $12 million for James Wiseman -- both on the fringes of their rotation. But Detroit has to spend that money wisely rather than continuing to collect non-shooting big men and lottery picks who have washed out elsewhere.
Aber die TO sind echt ne Zumutung von Cade und Ivey... Finde es erschreckend, dass es hier auch keinerlei Entwicklung zu sehen ist. Cade trifft auch seine offenen Dreier nicht, damit kann sich die Defense auf sein Mitteldistanzgame einstellen, weil Ausar und Hayes auch von aussen nix treffen. So kann man keine S5 spielen lassen. Burks oder Sasser müssen auf der 2 starten.
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2023/...ngham-detroit-pistons-breakout-advanced-stats
War ja bis jetzt auch eher aufm Trip, dass Cunningham Superstarpotential hat und nur die richtigen Spieler um sich braucht um sich entwickeln zu können, aber die Analyse klingt sehr ernüchternd. Schau sehr wenig Pistons-Spiele, eigentlich höchstens mal, wenns gegen meine Celtics geht. Von daher würde mich mal die Meinung der Fans hier zu dem Artikel interessieren.