Who Should Close For Detroit Pistons: Jalen Duren Or Isaiah Stewart?

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1. Heavy minutes for Cade,Ausar and Tobias! After that let the depth competition begin! Should be fun!

2. JB is going to love Bobi Klintman….3,4 or small ball 5! DEPTH!!!

3. I’d wanna see a lineup of Cade, Ausar, Fonteccio, Harris, and Stew. Use ausar as the lob threat and secondary playmaker.

4. Ive been commenting on pistons posts all offseason that stew should be our 5 not duren and received nothing but hate. Thank you for saying it. Duren hurts cade in total. Yes he is a good lob threat but that is not enough to cancel out the paint clogging and absolute negative defensively

5. Stew is above average rim/paint defender, switchable, has a positive ast/tov ratio, and is one of the most efficient stretch big man. I do not and will not understand why people dont think he should be our 5. Yes durens potential is higher but im not building around duren im building around cade’s potential and stew is built for that

6. You agree stew should close but why still start duren?

7. STEW, IVEY, CADE, TOBIAS, TECK

8. Cade, Ausar, Tobias, Stew, and Reed

   This is the lockdown defense with enough space for Cade to close the game.

9. Wow this guy really hates Ivey it’s disgusting. J.B all ready stated J.I and Cade will start and finish games next season

   Ivey is the undeniable closer at the 2 being a actual secondary ball handler, having the ability to create his own shot and collapse defenses while also being a knockdown c&s guy from 3 finishing his rookie year shooting 47.4% on unguarded c&s 3s ranking him in the 90th percentile with no Monty and Killian love fest to get in his way of a phenomenal season

   You will be apologizing to Ivey midway through next season

10. Reed will take some or alot of beef stew minutes

11. Who should close is simple. Who's playing best that game.

12. Cade, Ausar, Ivey or Tek, Tobias, Duren

13. Cade/Ausar/Fonteccio/Harris/Stewart. Solid defense and no weird spacing issue. Duren has talent, but he gets in the way of other players and hasn't defended well while Stewart has a well-rounded game that elevates teammates. Ausar is the much more versatile non-shooter because of his on and off ball defense, and his playmaking. Amen dominated in the dunker's spot and as a roller when he had to play the frontcourt with Jabari Smith; the Pistons should try that more with Ausar and Stewart. I can't think of a single NBA starter that I'd bench for Ivey.

14. Stew if he can shot 4-6 from 3

15. Paul Reed will make things less typical. He will be what Isiah Stewart is portrayed to be. Actually you will see more of Stew at 4 than you think. Stew with Reed will be pistons Identity.
    Every statistic that you have for last year you can erase it, they were under a dysfunctional leadership. monty williams leadership, was seriously responsible for disappointed "next step developmental leap". the team's regression 'Everyone' last yr underperformed because of dysfunctional direction . Duren will be vastly improved. He will revive his projected potential and solidify his extension's worth. He and Ausar will make the biggest leap. Yet Reed & Stew &&&&&& Ausar will give this team's identity.

16. Stew is a stretch big?? No one covers him at all. With winning or game tying 3s he passes em up. Stew is undersized as the 5 and where he ranks doesnt matter. No one is running. When they do and he has that then we will see. Are we betting on Stew for a big 3?? Stews blocks are down as well. And who has he defended?? He cant cover stretch 4s or actual bigs. He gets abused in the post no one remembers?? I have seen more people run at Ivey for a 3 then Stew. Second chance points we can count on Duren more.

17. Closing Cunningham, Thompson, Holland, Harris, Duren. After All Star break!

18. No, Stewart is not yet a floor spacer. Sure, once in a while Stewart would get hot on threes in the first half, and so get some defensive attention in the second half. But that was rare. 90% of the time, Stewart was not guarded when out at the three point line.

    On defense, Stewart failed before as a center. We actually used Wiseman and Bagley at backup center last season, not Stewart. Just because Stewart just lost his job at pf because we got Harris, does not mean he got taller, or more athletic. Stewart is no center.

    On the stats, beware using stats from a team that won no games.

19. trade stewart

20. Duren must start best fit next to cade stew get starter minutes playing backup 4-5

21. The ivey hate is out of control hes been most healthy want to be here the most improved the most but got and get lesser opportunity and most hate from media that's crazy

22. You keep saying close with ausar and duren but you have said in the past we cant have 2 non shooters with cade. I feel like you cant play the 2 together

23. The biggest question I have is Cade