How the Pistons Went from Worst to First | Chris Mannix & Evan Turner

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1. F them. You don't get to call yourself that. Oh we don't get foul calls. F u those are techs

2. Pistons are outshooting their opponents from 3 this season, they just don't take as many.

3. Trajan Langdon deserves a lot of credit

4. Cade. Most of this is baked in when you draft an MVP candidate.

   The hard work is not actually going all that well, to the extent that it has even begun.

5. That's the team Troy Weaver was building. He wanted a new "Bad Boys".That's why they look like that when JB Bickerstaff came in.

6. Cunningham is 6'6' not 6'8'.
   Still very tall for a PG.

7. I was watching the game against the Celtics the other day and I was thinking, dang the Pistons can get stagnant offensively, but then they get on these great runs directly off their defense. Like how the Warriors could always erase a 12 point deficit in like a minute with their three point shooting, the Pistons kinda do the same thing with steals, blocks and rebounds. They had a couple runs in the first half where they’d get a steal early in the shot clock and boom, fast break bucket. The C’s come down and launch a three, Pistons get the board and fire it back down the floor for another easy bucket. They come down faster and the Pistons get another steal. Before you know it, they’re up 7. I just love that they’re bringing back different styles of play instead of every team trying to turn the game into a three-point contest whether they have the personnel for that style of play or not. Long story short, I think this is a style of play that can definitely be successful in the postseason. I think it will actually thrive. The NBA has always been a copycat league, and you look at them and the Thunder, both leading their conference in record and basically ranked 1 and 2 in defense. Hopefully smash-mouth basketball is making a comeback.

8. Cade is MVP
   The Pistons are FOR REAL! 🔥

   We just need ONE more go to scorer , because when the season gets tough and playoffs come, we will need someone to take pressure off Cade.

9. Pistons 31-10 baby!!
   And they truly like each other and I'm telling you dont sleep on Ivey, when he finally gets into the starting line up, look tfo!

   Don't forget Green and Sasser, they are 3 point threats they can string it!

10. Cade is always introduced as 6’6 in the player introductions at home games. Not 6’8

11. Evan 💅🏿💅🏿😂

12. Bro lookin rough

13. People want to say Cade but that's the lazy answer. It's the easy to give the star all the credit but that's not usually the reality.

    Cade, especially last year, wasn't much better than 23-24. He just had better teammates. When he actually got to play in competent lineups in 23-24 the offense was quite good.

    #1 by far is JB Bickerstaff. And really getting rid of Monty Williams. That one change was worth 15-20 wins. And another 10 this year with the defense jumping from 11th to 2nd.

    I'm not sure people who didn't watch them a lot can grasp how absolutely horrendous Monty was. It genuinely felt like he was trying to get fired.

    #2 is replacing G-League players with NBA rotation guys. Having competent veterans instead guys on their way out of the league or guys on the fringes makes a HUGE difference. Worth another 5-10 wins.

    I guess you give Trajan credit for this but Tobias was coming either way and Weaver didn't keep that cap space open on accident

    #3 is the development of Stew, Duren and Ausar. 5-10 wins last year (mostly Stew & Ausar) and a other 5 this year from Duren.

    #4 is Cade. Particularly this year he's probably worth 5 more wins. Cade was still very dependent on Duren last year (119 offense with both, 113 with or without Cade otherwise) but this year he — and Duren — are really elevating their teammates

14. I mean we just watched the Pistons beat the Celtics which felt like a playoff game. Celtics are one of the best shooting percentage teams in the league. So the answer to your question can the Pistons win against modern 3 point shooting teams? Yes they can. If you have a great defense and make life miserable for these great shooting teams you can win in the modern NBA and not have great perimeter shooting. I think the Pistons front office will address this before the deadline. Cade definitely needs someone in the backcourt outside of Robinson that can space the floor. It might not be a sexy signing but it doesn't need to be.