Detroit Pistons Betting Favorite To Acquire Cam Thomas! | Would Trajan Langdon Make The Move

Detroit Pistons Betting Favorite To Acquire Cam Thomas! | Would Trajan Langdon Make The Move

The Detroit Pistons are the betting favorites to acquire ultra scorer Cam Thomas of the Brooklyn Nets. In today’s episode, we’ll break down how his addition could help the Pistons. Break it down. Today’s episode, Locked on Pistons podcast. Let’s go. You are Locked on Pistons, your daily Detroit Pistons podcast, part of the Locked Onet. Your team every day. What’s the deal? Welcome back to another episode of the Locked On Pistons podcast. Per usual, I am your host Cucker Hill. You can find me over on Twitter, Cuckerhill. I’ve been covered in the Detroit Pistons over the last four years for the Lockdown Network, been credential media member over the last three years. I appreciate all of your guys’ support, all the everyday, everyone who makes Locked On Pistons your first listen of every single day. I appreciate all of you guys. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. In today’s episode, we’ll be breaking down the good and the bad from the Detroit Pistons summer league. What we saw from Bobby Clintman, Ron Holland, Chaz Laneir, Dennis Jenkins. We’ll talk about it all, but a topic or a segment that I’m really excited to discuss later on. It’s the last segment we’re going to do. I’m going to be revisiting takes from from before the season and seeing how these takes played out now that the season is over. I’ve already looked at quite a few and I can’t wait for this. This is gonna be this is gonna be fun. Um, so stay tuned for that. But let’s go ahead and get into the big news of today. I wake up today. I wake up today. It feels like every single time I wake up, there’s like some new random rumor with the Pistons. We had the Jane Ivy stuff from the other day that we talked about. Then I wake up today and I see that Cam Thomas is somehow being linked to the Detroit Pistons. And the only reason why he’s being linked to the Detroit Pistons is because apparently the Detroit Pistons are the betting favorites to acquire him. According to Bulvvada official, the Pistons are plus 350 favorites to acquire him. It goes Pistons plus 350, Hornets plus 400, Bulls plus 400, Grizzlies plus 400, Magic plus 650, Jazz plus 650, and Wizards plus 650. So the Pistons are the betting favorites of about seven, eight of those teams that they have for Cam Thomas. So now this has caused a bunch of discussion in the Pistons community and I saw quite a few NBA community members talking about the Pistons potentially going after Cam Thomas as well. So I want to discuss Cam Thomas the player, what he’s good at and whether I believe the Pistons could actually go after him. Cam Thomas is a flatout scoreer. There is like that is the that’s all we’re really going to discuss in today’s episode about him. He is a lights out scorer who was looking like he was improving this past year and really taking another step as a scorer. Average 24 points per game on around 57 true shooting percentage. That’s nothing to sneeze at. Cam Thomas is around 23 years old. That is not easy stuff. 24 on on some league average efficiency on a team like Brooklyn with no other real scoring options. I mean, that’s that’s nothing to sneeze at at all. He was in the 92nd percentile as a pick and roll ball handler. Really impressive. This right here is what even which is even more impressive. 96th percentile as an in isolation, which is pretty crazy. And he became a better spot-up shooter this year. He was in the 79th percentile on spot-up situations this past year for the Brooklyn Nets. Um my overall thoughts on Cam Thomas are he is proven, I think, to be a legit scorer in the NBA. And I think he’s going to only get better. He’s only 23 years old. I don’t see why we can consider every all these other players that can get better, but Cam Thomas can’t get better. Um I think he’s going to continue to get better. Um I know he went at Zack Low a few days ago. Um, and my thoughts on this on on the reason why he’s available to begin with is while yes, Cam is a very I would say a very good scorer with a lot of talent. A lot of scoring talent, he doesn’t offer much else at this point right now. Now, what’s going for him is that he actually is very good at scoring. He’s not like out and I I sorry to throw this shot at this guy, but he’s not like Jaylen Green where the cell on him is, oh, he’s an efficient scorer, except he’s not actually efficient scorer. Cam is actually an efficient score. He is a He is really good at what he does. You put him in isolation, give him a mismatch, he’s cooking them. You don’t send a double team, he’s cooking them. Like, he actually can do that. So, there is value for that. But the reason why he is still available, I believe, is because he doesn’t offer much else. He struggled to make to to be a good playmaker. He did average a career high in assists around four a game this year, but he averaged career high in turnovers. And it wasn’t like he was crazy. It wasn’t like he was averaging five, six, seven assists a game. Averages around four a game. He hasn’t been this great playmaker. He hasn’t been the greatest defender. And he also I this part doesn’t really matter to me too much, but it’s not like he’s 68, 67. He’s around 63, 6’4. He’s not that big. I’m not too concerned about that part though. Um, but in today’s NBA, especially with how you’ve watched these playoffs play out, guys who can only do one thing and especially if that one thing is when is that you need the ball in your hands, you’re just it’s going to be hard to really make you a focal point of a team. So, that’s where I’m at with Cam as a player. He’s a really good scorer. He’s a efficient scorer. I like I think there 100% is a role for him in the NBA somewhere as as an impact player. Like I the the discussion about oh Cam’s just a scoreer, you can’t have him in the le. Like I’ve seen some people suggest that Cam Thomas shouldn’t shouldn’t be getting minutes for teams or that because he doesn’t pass the ball enough or something. I think that’s ludicrous. He is a really good scorer. He is he that is valuable. That there is value to someone who can be as good as he is as a scorer. There’s value to that. But all the other things that he that he doesn’t do, he has to improve on if he actually wants to be a legit player that warrants that type of usage. Because like one of the things he went at Zack Low about on the on on Twitter the other day was, you know, Zack Low was saying that the team uh there there’s teams out there that question, you know, his ability to pass and that he gets doubled, whatever, whatever. And Cam Thomas was like, “Well, I’m being doubled all the time because I’m the only real scoreer on the team.” Whereas, yeah, that that’s part of it for sure. Part of it is the fact that he’s one of the only scorers in the team. The other part of it is teams know that if they double him, he’s not making a passing read. And oftentimes he may even try to shoot over the double team. And if he does try and make the passing read, it takes him a while to to make it and they can try to pick passes off. They the net the Nets or whatever team he’s a part of won’t be able to take advantage of the two-on ball advantage that he’s created. So I I think that was a little bit ironic to see that from him because I feel like that’s part of his issue, too. um is that he it doesn’t feel like he really understands. Uh I feel like it’s it’s just ironic because I don’t think he really understands what he has to improve on and why things are certainly happening. I saw someone say if the Pistons were to acquire Cam Thomas, the biggest issue would be h convincing Cam Thomas he’s not the best player on the team, that he’s not better than Cade, which kind of sums up how confident Cam Thomas is and the way he plays. Um but now let’s talk about are the Pisces going to get him? No, the Pistons are not acquiring him. Um, if they were I already saw some people say if they were to acquire him, what does this say about Ivy? They’re not getting Cam Thomas. I would be absolutely shocked if they got Cam Thomas. If they got Cam Thomas before they got Caris Levert, then it would make more sense. But if they got Cam Thomas now, this basically would be saying moving on from Ivy or something. They must be trading Ivy. And everyone knows I’m an Ivy skeptic, but I’m go I am a fair person. It’s not fair for Cam only played 25 games this past year. If I’m going to come on this podcast and say I don’t believe in Ivy sample size because they only had 29 games, what is it? 29 30 games and a hot five game uh stretch at the end right before he got injured. I can’t come on here and try to sing the praises of a 23 24 game sample size either. So there’s a there’s a world where this sample size that we saw from Camwei looks like he was taking another leap or a leap is the wrong word or improving isn’t actually real. It’s not a real sample size. It was just so small that if we would have seen the full season play out, it wouldn’t have maintained at that point. So that’s one. Uh and two, I’ve said on this podcast over and over, my understanding is the Pistons are going to want to see Ivy, Cade, Assar, and Duran with some sample size before they make decisions on anybody. And I don’t see them going away from that for Cam Thomas unless it has something to do with contract demands. Unless they’re just so far away in extension talks, they know they’re not bringing back one of these guys and then they move him. I mean, maybe and maybe if that were to happen, but no, Cam to the Pistons, I don’t see how that really fits. Again, if they didn’t have Caris, I would understand because the Pistons Cam would help them. I’ve talked about this on the podcast. They’ve needed isolation scoring. They need someone that can just go get a bucket. There’s an argument, certainly an argument that if you just drop Cam Thomas on this team, he’s the best isolation guy on the team, that he’s the best scorer on the team, like pure bucket, that he’s the best scorer. Now, you may give the edge to Kade because of the coverage Cade sees and his ability to make counters off of those coverages. Fair. But then outside of Cade, like I Cam Thomas would be the best scorer then. So, like he would help. He would help. He would help in that regard. They would become a more efficient uh I believe isolation scoring team. I think he would help them in the half court. take some pressure maybe off of off of Cade. Cade maybe play off ball a little bit more. Um but Cam doesn’t fit right now. They’ve already, you know, they they’ve filled up their back court. I don’t see why the Pistons are favorites for Cam unless they know some stuff that I don’t. Um but yeah, I this isn’t happening. They’re not acquiring Cam Thomas. They’re not trading Jay and Ivy so they can get Cam Thomas. It’s not happening. I do just want to say though before we wrap up, I do think it’s incredibly unfair of people to say that Cam Thomas has no value. I I don’t think that’s true. I think that’s when you can do what he does as a scorer, there is somewhere in the league for you to do that. He has to get better. He does need to improve these other areas of his game, become a better passer, become a more consistent defender, be even more healthier, um throughout a season, but he’s 23 years old. He’s going to get better. And 24 a game on 57 true shooting at is not that’s not easy. like that. That is not easy to do. So, I’m interested to see where he gets picked up or if he just goes back to Brooklyn on the qualifying offer. I’m interesting to see how this goes. Um, don’t think it’s going to be a piss the the Pistons. I I really don’t buy that. But, Cam has somewhere in the league. He has value and I think he’s going to get better. So, I I think people are maybe going a little overboard with the Cam Thomas hate. But, let me know comment uh comment section down below or over on Twitter. Would you like the Detroit Pistons to go after Cam Thomas? What does this mean? Do you buy into this uh these betting odds? Let me know all that comment section down below or over on Twitter, Cuckahill. Coming up, I’m going to give you guys my good and bad takeaways from summer league, some good with Ron Holland, and maybe some not so good from some recent draft picks, we’ll talk about it coming up. Today’s episode’s brought to you by FanDuel. Summer sports are in full swing. And whether you’re all about baseball under lights Tigers, what’s going on? One and nine the last 10 games. Let’s get it together. golf on the green or a high stakes soccer action. FanDuel is the best way to make every game even more exciting. You’re already following the action. Why not make it a little bit more thrilling? With FanDuel, you can get in on the game while your friends are getting sunburned at the beach. I’ve been using FanDuel to track my favorite matchups, and the app keeps it fresh with new daily promotions and fun ways to bet. It’s easy to use, fast to pay out, and makes even regular season games feel like mustwatch events. 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Um, let’s go ahead and get into again stay tuned for later and so we can so when we discuss the the takes from before the season. I I’m really looking forward for that one. I almost thought about making it the first topic in today’s but I thought the Cam Thomas stuff was probably on more on the front of everybody’s minds obviously. Um, but let’s talk about summer league here. Uh, summer league obviously is wrapped up. Ron Holland was uh was a part of the second team. What do they call it? All summer league team. He made the second team. I think he should have made the first team. Um but there’s really four guys we’re going to spend this segment talking about. It’s Ron Holland, Bobby Clintman, Chaz Laneir, and Dennis Jenkins. That’s who we’re going to talk about here. So, let’s start with Ron. I thought Ron was incredibly impressive and gave you everything you wanted to see from him during summer league. shot around 40 45% from beyond the ark. Played really well. Looked like he was the best player on the floor every time he touched the court. That’s what you like to see from your secondyear player in summer league. Was very aggressive. The shot looks improved. We’ve talked about that. The shot just looks more um fluid, looks more uh he looks more comfortable with it. He looks way more confident with it. Um, and that’s really I liked and we we spent the whole podcast like I think five episodes ago or something talking about how I really enjoyed seeing Ron test his playmaking reads. He averaged a lot of turnovers. He was turn the ball over quite a bit at times, but it was because he was trying to make more advanced reads. He wasn’t just getting to the basket and trying to finish every single thing. He was trying to read defenses. Okay, they helped down. Where’s the kick out? He was trying to make these reads and sometimes they were off mark. Sometimes he did make them. Sometimes it was the wrong read. But I I thought that it was a very mature way to attack the off seasonason, to attack the summer league because we know that Ron, it was great to see him finish at the rim, but we know he can finish at the rim. We know he has great touch around the rim. What we know that he needs to improve on is as a passer, as a shooter, and consistent uh play in the half court play to play. And I I thought him spending time uh very noticeably trying to make better passing reads and and and read the defense I thought was very mature of him. I really like seeing that. I don’t know if it’s something we’re going to see a lot of this year. I don’t know how good he’s going to be at this year, but that tells me that he knows that that’s an area that he has to improve on. He wants to improve on. He spoke before one of the games about how he’s been watching K Cunningham film this offseason so he can see how he reads the defense and try to learn from that. I I I loved all of that from Ryan. It honestly makes me feel even better about him that he instead of going into summer league just worried about I want to score 25 plus points a game. I just want to dominate, dunk on everybody, finish at the rim. He looked at it as a way to improve and to work on his weaknesses in a live game setting. So I liked what we saw from Ron a lot. I thought he was great. And obviously if the jumpers any like I don’t think anyone thinks he’s gonna be a 40% three-point shooter this year, but if he’s going if if the shot actually is there and he actually has improved as a shooter, that would be absolutely big time for the Pistons. Just around 33 34% would be such a huge improvement for him and he shot the lights out in summer league. So maybe he actually is there. I’m really interested to see it. But I thought Ron did everything you wanted to see from him. Um, now let’s move on to and you know what? Let’s stay positive. Let’s go Dannis Jenkins here because I’ll go ahead and spoil it. Bobby and Chaz, I’m not it’s not going to be super positive with those, but let’s go with Dan Jenkins. If there is a guy in summer league that proves that he deserves to be on some teams roster and deserves to get a chance, it’s Dan Jenkins. The Pistons, I believe, have two spots open right now. If if my tracking is correct, if I understand this correctly, they have two spots open. He should get one. Dance Jenkins was phenomenal in summer league. Active defensively, strong defensively, strong on drives, making good passes, shot the ball really well, had some really good finishes around the basket, looked way more confident with the ball in his hands, way more confident of a ball handler, was just overpowering guys, was had no fear when he was on the floor. He was f there was multiple games where you could have made the argument that who was better, Ron or Dannis Jenkins. He was great. The Pistons aren’t going to have any room for rotation minutes for like a backup point guard, but he should make the roster. And if anyone were to go down or if they, you know, maybe they make a trade or whatever, if they just want to have another point guard on, a real point guard on the team, it should be Danny Jenkins. I think he proved that. He was fantastic. I loved what I saw for man. He was talking trash the whole summer league, too. Um, some of his drives, man. Some of his drives were just uber impressive. Whether it was like a fake pass into a lay, same hand, same foot finish, whether it’s high scoops off the glass, finishing through contact, euro steps, like he was he was incredibly impressive. I really liked what I saw from Dan Jen. So, if he doesn’t get a chance with the Pistons, I think he 100% should be getting a contract from some team out there. And honestly, I would be really interested to see him maybe get a contract with like a rebuilding tanking team that gives him minutes and see how he looks cuz he looked much much better during the summer league than he did even last summer league. Uh there again, there were multiple times where I thought he was the best player on the floor. That’s how good he was. Um so Jenkins, fantastic. Um where do I go next? Let’s go with let’s go with Bobby. There is a section there’s a section of this fan base that really wants to believe or not wants really does believe in Bobby. And I’ve told you guys this before. I want Bobby to be good because he’s my type of player. He is a processor. He’s a highle processor. He’s a good offball playmaker. He makes the right reads when it’s there. Those are the type of players I You guys know those are my favorite type of players. Highlevel processors that make the right play, right read play to play. He does that and he has good passing ability for a guy his size. He really does. Like I’m not ignoring that. But Bobby, he just did not look like an NBA player during summer league for a few reasons. He really struggled defensively to stay in front of guys. I think that was a bit concerning. Um, I think the the most concerning part to me with Bobby, and I’ve mentioned this in the podcast now a few times, the most concerning part to me is he failed to show any real way in which the Pistons could actually leverage his playmaking if he were to get minutes because he’s theoretically he’s theoretically a shooter that’s an inconsistent shooter. He didn’t shoot very well in G-League last year and he was inconsistent in the summer league this this this offseason. So he’s a he’s an inconsistent outside shooter from what we’ve seen so far from maybe he becomes a really good one but from what we’ve seen so far he’s had highs and he’s had lows. So he’s an inconsistent shooter. He doesn’t really set screens. If you watch during the summer league he doesn’t really make contact with screens. And the reason why I bring that up is because if he were to set harder screens or make contact on screens, that could maybe open up a possibility of maybe catching the primary defender uh with the screen and making him lag behind which forces two on the ball. Now he can utilize his passing in the short roll. Like that opens up that area, but he doesn’t really do that often either. The other area of his game that I was really really disappointed in to be honest. This is the area that I if he were to improve this area, I think that would it would really make up everything. And this what I’ve really the most concerned about is his inability to attack closeouts. I I don’t know if it’s due to his like guys who are not athletic are still able to attack closeouts. They attack confidently and they understand angles and they’re able to keep advantages when guys fall for, you know, a pump fake or a close out too strong. Bobby during summer league rarely was able to attack a closeout, get all the way to the basket and then make a pass. Like oftent times if you watch the summer league, most of his drives, especially when he’s attacking a closeout, ended in either a jump stop and kind of holding the ball, looking around for somewhere to pass or ended in him not being able to get all the way to the basket, losing control of it or something, and then just making a kick out and kind of rotating to the corner. You need Bobby to be able to attack a rot rotating defense, attack a close out, and then keep the advantage when a guy when he gets the step on a guy. So then he forces either help, potential finish at the rim. And if he does force help, that’s when you can get his passing re, his passing ability, and that’s when it really can pop. But he just wasn’t able to do that. I’d like I’d love for him to improve. I’d love for him to actually be a good player, but summer league was not the best from him. and he I think he has a long ways to go still. Doesn’t mean he’ll never get there, but I don’t think he’s there right now. And I think a fair question can be asked that how long and how much are the Pistons going to invest in a second round pick. Again, I’m not I’d love to see him become good and improve. Not saying he can’t get there, but right now I I I don’t feel confident that he’s there right now. I don’t think his play in summer league should give real reason to believe that he’s going to be a backup four for a team trying to become a top four seed in the east. Not a team rebuilding anymore. Not a team you can just give minutes and test things out. A team that’s actually trying to take next steps. Bobby Clipman as your back four. Like I feel like that’s trolling. Um so that’s that’s my takeways with Bobby. Then Chaz. I thought Chaz was actually more unimpressive than Bobby. I I thought Chaz was probably the I think Chaz had one of the the worst takeaways of any of the players on the Pistons. Honestly, I think Tou Smith was better than Chaz. The As I’ve told you guys before, I talked to a few scouts after they drafted Chaz and they all said obviously that he’s a great shooter, but all of them all three of the scouts that I spoke to talked about how they don’t know if he does anything else at an NBA level and they were a bit confused about the pick because of that. They don’t they were unsure of if he was going to be able to do anything else at an NBA level. And what you saw in summer league one, he didn’t shoot the best, but I I feel like most people are probably going and which is includes me. I’m one of those people. You have a long career of being a great shooter. I don’t care if you don’t shoot like it’s not that I don’t care, but if you don’t shoot the, you know, 40% in summer league for four games, I’m not going to all of a sudden think, oh, this shooting prospect is no longer a good shooter. It’s not what I’m going to think. So, but that’s not the the issue here. The issue I had with Chaz was one, anytime he had the ball in his hands and it wasn’t an immediate catch and shoot, he looked frantic. He looked completely didn’t know what to do. His handle was not there at all. He struggled to attack closeups as well. Wasn’t even able to really run any ball screens. And something I noticed that even when he came off handoffs, if the immediate shot wasn’t there, he immediately panicked like he he wanted the ball out of his hands quickly. There was one really bad turnover he had, I believe in the second game when he came around a ball screen to the right side of the floor, it wasn’t there. And instead of like keeping the dribble alive and maybe like trying to do something or at least keeping the dribble alive to then get it to somebody else, he picked up his dribble immediately. Looked like he was panicking, just threw the ball to the left side of the floor, turned it over, fast break layup. Like I thought Chad I really thought Chaz just did not look very good in the summer league. He wasn’t able to do anything with the ball in his hands. Wasn’t able to drive to the basket. Wasn’t able to create looks for himself and didn’t and a lot of times there were times where he looked super confident as a shooter, but then there were other times where it felt like he does have a quick release, but it seems like the release is a little like his shot is a little lower, like he doesn’t have a high release. And I felt like that maybe bothered him sometimes and made him not as confident to just let it rip because there were times throughout summer league where it looked like he was questioning whether he wanted to take this shot or not. And you can’t have that when that’s your one when your one elite ability as a as a sniper. That can’t be the case. You got to let it fly. It has to be going. Um, so and defensively I thought I mean he was okay defensively, but you see I I thought you walked away from summer league saying, “Okay, he has a lot to work on.” And the concerning part for me, and I’m not saying he can’t, he’s not going to improve. He can’t. The concerning part for me is that when you draft an older prospect as old as Chaz is, you’d like to see them be a little bit more ready because most times people aren’t going to give a 24 year old year old prospect three, four years to try to develop. Like you if you’re drafting an older prospect, it’s because you believe they can be better quicker quicker. Um, and based off summer league and what we saw, it looked like if it if it isn’t shooting threes, he’s he’s not there yet with that. And that’s concerning a little bit for me, but at the end of the day, he’s probably not he’s not expected to get minutes anyways. And he’s a second round pick, so I just give him the season, let him go play in the G- League, see what happens. But I thought Ron and Dannis Jenkins were incredible in some league. I thought Bobby I’m lower on Bobby’s performance, but I will say that there were there were some ups and some downs. Like it was inconsistent. I wasn’t I I wasn’t I I don’t feel the greatest about summer league, but he did have some highs in there. Chaz I thought was just consistently con disappointing. So it is what it is. Let me know comment section down below or over on Twitter cuckill what were your guys’ biggest takeaways from summer league. But coming up this is probably what I’ve been most looking forward to in today’s episode. Revisiting takes from before the season. Stay tuned for it coming up. So, I want to thank you guys again for making Locked On Pistons your first listen for every single day. We are free and available on all your podcast platforms. If you haven’t already, head to the YouTube channel at Locked OnPistons. Hit that subscribe button or leave us a fivestar review on whatever podcast platform you’re listening to us on. That’s another great way to support the podcast. All right, this is this is going to be fun. So, I’m not just looking at bad ticks. It’s not just bad tick. Actually, before we get into the ones I have pulled up, I want to hear from you guys. Either send me DMs on Twitter, either tweet me on Twitter, any bookmark, screenshots of someone that had a bad take before the season or a really good take before the season. Tweet me all that. And then also in the comment section down below or in the reviews on whatever podcast platform you’re listening to this on, let me know maybe some takes you before the season that turned out to be really right or really wrong. Let me know all. I want to hear from you guys. I I really can’t wait for this. I like I want to hear from everyone on their preseason takes. Um, all right. First place we’re going first takes that we have to go after. This is a bad take. I’m going after you. Locked on. Locked on. We’re coming after you. Don’t I did not forget before the season, guys. I know you guys remember we were in the bottom feeders recording before the year. We do a locked on segment when teams from each conference get grouped into these, you know, these groupings and they record an episode. And we were put in the bottom five of the East grouping. We were in the group with the Washington Wizards, the Bulls, the Nets, and the Raptors. And Locked on Raptors looking at you as well had a lot to say about the Pistons and Cade being bottom feeders, being in the tanking crew, being at the bottom of the East crew. That was on October 15th. The recording, the video on my YouTube channel says, “Can the Detroit Pistons rise or are they still a bottom five team. That was before the year the Pistons finished as a six seed and Cade May all NBA third team.” That is a certified bad take locked on. I’m sorry, Nick, David, all of you guys. But listen, you guys didn’t have to put the Pistons in the bottom of your guys did. So now I gotta make you pay for it. Um, that’s the first one. Second one, K. Cunningham’s ESPN ranking. He was at 67 before the year. Absolutely insanity. Absolutely disrespectful. He’s finished now around most list you’ll see him around the top 15ish. And again was an allNBA third team. I remember I’m looking at this YouTube video October 18th. Why ESPN’s K Cunningham ranking disrespects the Detroit Pistons. All right, that’s another one. There was a good one. Where is uh where was the where? Oh my god, I had it pulled up. There was a good one here. Oh, right here. JB Bigger Staff. I had a video on August 10th when I said that JB Bigger Staff showing that he will have a positive difference on the Detroit Pistons this year and the positive difference on their culture. That was a ringing good one. That was a good one. I was I was right on that one. That one was good. Um here’s a bad one though for me. This was a Look, I’m fair. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong. I’m willing to admit I’m wrong. If I’m right, I’m willing to admit. Trust me, I’m definitely willing to admit when I’m right. Um, I don’t have the date on this video. Where’s the date? I don’t have the date on this video. Basically, I asked the question, will the Detroit Pistons finish over under their win total, which was 24 and a Yeah, 24 and a half. And I said no. I said they would not go over. I said that they had finished under their win total the last four years. and I had gotten burnt three straight years with it and that I wasn’t getting burnt again. I went under. Now, obviously the Pistons won damn near 20 more games and uh than their win total and had one of the largest jumps we’ve ever seen in the NBA history. So, Cuckah Hill certified bad take. Um, looking at all the like YouTube looking at all my YouTube videos for Locked On. I’m not going through the the podcast because it’s easier to I have all the videos. It’s easier to sort the older videos than it is to sort the older podcast. Um, but looking at the titles of all the podcasts from before the season, man, it’s just like it’s funny to look it’s funny to look at these. Like there’s one episode from August 20th. Will Jaylen Durn or Isaiah Stewart close for the Detroit Pistons? And honestly, I feel like that one was a really good one because be for the majority of the year, that was a real question. For the whole season, I think I was right to make that a topic because for the whole year, Isaiah Stewart and Jaylen Dur kind of swapped closing games. And for the first half of the year, Isaiah Stewart was better. Um, and then Jaylen Dur obviously got much better as the season went on. But I think and I maintain I think Isaiah Stewart might have closed games in the playoffs if he was healthy. So I think that one was a good one. I’ll go ahead and put a certified good take um from Cuckoo Hill on August 20th. Um here’s one right here. Uh July 31st anonymous executive says the Detroit Pistons are a mess and feel bad for K Cunningham. Certified bad take on July 31st. That was terrible. The Pistons went on to win their first playoff game in over 15 years. Kade again was seventh in MVP voting, third team allNBA, got the respect of everybody, and now the Pistons are looked at as an upand cominging team. And everyone, it seems like the Pistons are their darling pick for this upcoming season. Again, looking at these is is funny. Okay, here’s another one. October 10th, NBA GMs vote Detroit Pistons young core the fifth most promising in the NBA. I think they might go higher. You guys think that? Actually, I’ll let you guys decide on that one. Is that one still a good take? Are the Pistons around fifth? I think the Pistons might be higher. I think they might be higher now. Fifth most. We won’t go certified bad or good take, but that’s We should revisit that. Actually, you know what? Next episode, we might revisit that exact uh GM vote. But I that’s really that’s the ones I have for now. There’s quite a few I could keep going with. Uh, oh, the the overunders episode was July 25th. I just realized that. I just saw it. Um, you want to know another one? Here’s actually this will be the last one I I I leave you guys with. before the year quite I I I had asked a lot of you guys on Twitter to send me your guys’ worst or good takes and it brought me to a Twitter poll in the Pistons community asking who do you want the Pistons to draft out of this past draft and there were so many people and I mean I mean a lot of people that wanted Dalton connect. In this poll, there’s nine over 950 votes in it. Dolan Connect got the most votes, 34% of the votes. So many people wanted Dalton Connect and I think now that clearly looks like it would have been a horrible move to do. And they went with Ron Holland. I think that’s proven to be a good one. Another one, a lot of people wanted Montasalis. And I don’t think that’s a bad take to be honest. I don’t think that’s a horrible one, but not many people had Ron Holland before the year. Not people, not a lot of people thought or wanted Ryan Holland to be drafted and now everyone loves him. So, don’t connect. Thank god they didn’t draft him because that would have been bad. Um, we’ll wrap it up there. Let me know all of your guys’ takes from before the season, whether it’s a good one or a bad one. I shared both my good and bad ones. Um, it’s all fun and games. Let me know comment section down below or over on Twitter, Cookhill. But that’s all I’ve got for you guys today. Thank you guys. Make locked on Pistons your first listen every single day. Free available on all your podcast platforms. Check out the description down below for the playback, the substack, and the Twitch channel. I appreciate all of you guys support. Hit that subscribe button. Leave us a fivestar review, whatever podcast platform you’re listening to us on. Until next time, I’ll see you guys later. Stay safe out there. And until next time, peace out everybody.

PISTONS TRADE RUMORS: Cam Thomas to Detroit? Summer League Standouts Emerge

Are the Detroit Pistons eyeing Brooklyn Nets scorer Cam Thomas? Host Ku Khahil breaks down the latest trade buzz and analyzes Thomas’s fit with Detroit’s young core. Dive into a comprehensive review of the Pistons’ Summer League performances, highlighting Ron Holland’s impressive showing and Daniss Jenkins’ unexpected impact. Khahil revisits preseason predictions, exposing inaccurate takes about Cade Cunningham and the team’s potential. How did Detroit defy expectations to secure the 6th seed? Discover the GM survey results ranking the Pistons’ promising young talent and what it means for their future. Tune in for expert analysis on Detroit’s evolving roster and strategy.

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