Practice is no sweat, its the games that are a problem: 2024-5 Detroit Pistons thread

Eza

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They just a better product on the floor overall than last year, cup or not. But it's nice to see them blowing a team out. The off-season pickups have been pretty productive, especially Beasley for peanuts. And he seems to like it in Detroit too.
He got ties here, said his mom lived on 6 mile and he be all up through that way with no worries.

We need to resign him as soon as possible.
 

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Yall igguhs Need to call a Chicago again about Lavine :beli:. Y’all drafted a lot of young guards and I’m just not sure about any of them outside of Cade:francis:
 

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Yall igguhs Need to call a Chicago again about Lavine :beli:. Y’all drafted a lot of young guards and I’m just not sure about any of them outside of Cade:francis:
They turned lavine down in the offseason. I wouldn’t wanna tie all my cap up with him making 50 mill a year for the next 3 years other.
 

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TO's are still too high
They are but I'm sure they'll come down as the season progresses like they have each year. He's gotta do a better job of protecting the ball and playing like a big guard instead of constantly trying to put it in nikkas faces, especially the long lanky defenders.

And he's gotta improve on recognizing the secondary defender dropping off to him. He get tunnel vision, especially when he gets cooking offensively. That's where a real additional ball handler helps. Another pg or playmaker that can recognize and control the flow of the game and knows how to feed a hot hand.

I'll say this, team building is clearly a work in progress, but they're not nearly as behind as they appeared last season.
 
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They are but I'm sure they'll come down as the season progresses like they have each year. He's gotta do a better job of protecting the ball and playing like a big guard instead of constantly trying to put it in nikkas faces, especially the long lanky defenders.

And he's gotta improve on recognizing the secondary defender dropping off to him. He get tunnel vision, especially when he gets cooking offensively. That's where a real additional ball handler helps. Another pg or playmaker that can recognize and control the flow of the game and knows how to feed a hot hand.

I'll say this, team building is clearly a work in progress, but they're not nearly as behind as they appeared last season.
All facts
 

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Struggling to see upside with this core. Lagging far behind other young teams that started rebuilding at same time (Magic, Rockets, Spurs, Thunder). We’re on same level with Hornets. But At least in Charlotte Lamelo has looked like a superstar this year and Miller is legit.

Cade is good not great player
Holland is years away from being ready
Ivey is crazy inconsistent
Ausar has all the physical tools and bbiq but shot still broken
Duren has a poor motor and a disaster defensively
Stewart needs to be moved to a contender. Probably pistons most movable asset. And Stew deserves to play some meaningful bball

Beasley signing exceeding all expectations. Harris and thj have been up and down. But i like the vets with Tek

The problem is the lack of talent in young core guys unfortunately. Not sure how much better Ivey and Duren can be. Ausar one glaring issue makes him unplayable in certain lineups/situations.

They should honestly still be in tank wars. They need Cooper Flagg
 
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