There's some bad news for the Pistons: The losing streak has now become historic news that outweighs basketball itself.
Saturday's home game against the Raptors is a winnable game. The Pistons should have Casey — now in management — join the coaching staff at that game. During Casey's tenure when he was cut by the Raptors and then became the head coach of the Pistons, the Pistons had several revenge battles against the Raptors. ）
If you want to know how many drafts the Pistons have missed out on and how many bad signings they've made to get to this point, you'll need to dedicate an entire column to it — even though the Pistons are in their fifth year of rebuilding and still look like they were a first-year rebuilding team. Every wrong move, even those made a long time ago, represents an opportunity cost. These mistakes all matter – from Killian Hayes to Stanley Johnson to Josh Smith, Joan Ruhr and Bruce Brown (and many, many more).
They've only enjoyed the lotto's super good fortune once, but this year there aren't any mega that can't be missed. In the future, Cunningham has the hope of becoming the average level of the top pick, but it will certainly not reach the level of a cornerstone star. Evie (No. 5 pick in 2022), Osar Thompson (No. 5 pick in 2023) and Duren (No. 13 pick in 2022) all have a chance to match their expected returns for the pick;Duren should be able to play value beyond his ranks.
But sadly, they have this bland round that makes me jump out of my chair:
Cunningham and Evie almost look like a complementary relationship on the field. And on the occasional exception round, when one of them commands the attack, the other will just stand in place. They play in this way to weaken each other's role, as neither of them projects a threat. In another parallel world, the duo would be useful if they could play more complex off-ball tactics — think of the pick-and-roll system that Monty Williams helped the Suns build — but if neither side could shoot threes, those tactics wouldn't distort the defensive formation.
A severe lack of projection was a defining issue for this team, and was also amplified by Monty's insistence on a two-center lineup that saw the light to death. Swinging the lineup like this will make the Pistons make countless mistakes;The Pistons have the 29th turnover rate, and some of those turnovers are really ugly. It may have been a long time ago when an NBA team sent so many embarrassing shots to feed the ball, slingshot passes to the 5th row of spectators, and players dribbling to the ground.
For example, what tactics does Evie want to try with this ball?It's more like a jiu-jitsu show than a basketball round. It's as if the Pistons' ball-handler knows that there are a lot of people waiting for him in the restricted area, so he tries to find offensive gaps.
Cunningham had a league-high 124 turnovers, many of which were in the following pattern:
Cunningham burst into the box, met a group of defenders and collected the ball when there was no target for the ball. The Pistons' only option was to make some difficult passes, and many of them, including the one above, were inaccurate. Cunningham will also miss some of his teammates' open spots. Sometimes he would step on the line or just dribble the ball.
The Pistons have some interesting youngsters, as well as most of their own draft picks. They are too far away from even the NBA's regular bad teams. As mentioned in the previous article, when you want your home team to mess upThink of this piston。With no luck and no management decision-making beyond the ability of the average management, you could be wandering the NBA's uninhabited wasteland for 10-15 years — just like the Kings did before last season.