Pistons-Celtics Reaction: Cade Cunningham BEATS Jaylen Brown in crunch time

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1. Fun game, still not convinced by Detroit's offensive. Agree that Celtics need another centre

2. Celtics need Tatum back to be contenders. Jaylen Brown cannot carry this team against the top teams in the League. They cannot trade Simons without getting Tatum back.

3. JB also didn’t need to guard Cade all game. The Celtics have a few options for guys who can effectively guard Cade while JB conserves a little more energy. He chose to do that, and I hope how gassed he felt on that very makeable game winner will help convince him to help himself out.

4. Nemias Queta has been great. Luka Garza has been solid and consistent as a reserve.

   Simons has been the second or third best player on this team all season. I don’t think they can get enough back if they trade him. He’s too valuable.

   They need size at the Power Forward / Small Forward position. I would trade Sam Hauser and Payton Pritchard for a bigger, more athletic forward.

5. Cade didn’t beat anyone. He was pretty lousy. Brown won this battle when it comes down to those 2. Brown didn’t have any help unfortunately.

6. Thank you for consistenly talking about DEE-TROIT BASKET-BALL. Detroit's depth helps them to defend and be aggressive the entire game. Cade is finding the secondary scorer. It can be Tobias Harris or Duncan Robinson. Ron Holland is making great contributions to the Team.

7. I imagine the Pistons would’ve won by more pts if Cade was fully healthy and not wearing that stiff wrist/arm brace under his arm sleeve. He was scoring so well before he got injured. It’s a shame. Hopefully the takes some games off to fully heal. They need a second option who can make 3s consistently. I hope the gm is looking for someone.

   Also before the game Jaylen Brown said that he wanted to take on guarding Cade. So that was a decision he made himself.

8. Cade is the best player in the NBA. 😤

9. Cade is playing with one hand, he has a pretty significant wrist injury on his shooting hand. The month of November he shot 48/34/81… December he shot 49/36/83… January he is shooting 36/31/84… since his injury he is shooting 28/14/67… his shot is being bothered by his injury.

10. Cade Cunningham’s TEAM beat Jaylen brown. He was able to rely on his guys to hit shots, Jaylen wasn’t. Def felt the empty tank at the end for JB.

11. Thank you for pointing out how Jaylen wasn’t forcing or being a call hog – it’s all they had.

12. The PP to Queta hookup was SloppY almost all game. Al was not thinking to clearly he should have stayed.

13. Derrick White has really been struggling this year

14. in 2026:
    DET>BOS
    DET w/hurt Cade > BOS w/no Tatum
    DET>BOS W/Tatum coming off serious injury even if he did return before April

    Hope this clears up all the "if..if" mental gymnastics Celtics fans are playing.

15. Beat Celtics by 1 point at home with no Tatum. Give me a break.

16. Cade had a wrist injury that he missed a few games from. He's been wearing a sleeve and it's been affecting his jump shot.

17. Crazy clickbait title… wtf

18. Good for you having a successful youtube chanel but you dont know anything about basketball bro, fleeced the youtube nba commentary channels, anyone amazed by how jaylen brown playing doesnt know basketball, and since when has a player even been critized for guarding the other teams best player, he was tired but he missed the 2 free throws that cost them and im a jaylen brown and celtics fan

19. Outside of hitting 3s at a better clip than they do in the regular season, the Celtics can't hang against the Pistons physicality over a 7 game series.