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[Smith] The Pistons are awful. They aren't even bad with purpose right now. Lineups don't make sense. Positions players are being put in don't make sense. It's just a complete and total mess. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by AdulasMoonblade@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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The Pistons are awful. They aren't even bad with purpose right now. Lineups don't make sense. Positions players are being put in don't make sense. It's just a complete and total mess.

Sometimes teams are bad. It happens. And it's often with purpose. Spurs are also bad, but they are trying to figure out what they have. Pistons just seem to show up, do the same stuff, lose and repeat the process.

Being bad without purpose is just wasting a season.

Pistons are currently down 31 and about to lose their 15th in a row.

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[–] medtecspurs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I know this is unpopular, but I don’t think they are that bad, and certainly not unwatchable.

Cade has struggled, but he is a tough and skilled player that can be fun to watch. Ausar has generally looked awesome. Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren have looked solid as well.

Month Williams ha definitely don’t some dumb stuff. Killian Hayes is not a rotation player. Ivey never should have been benched. I don’t like to watch Isaiah Stewart play basketball unfortunately. The Pistons will look better with Bogdanovich also.

Let’s give these guys some more time to gel.

[–] TA_Account_12@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spacing is the biggest issue they have. They have 0 spacing. As teams are playing stretch 4s, they have a rim running C and a backup C who they’re forcing to be an pf starting. Other than Cade, there’s no one who can average 18 on that roster. Maybe Ivey gets there but not yet. Defenses are doubling Cade knowing Duren, ausar, beef stew, and to an extent Ivey can’t punish them. They can’t bench ausar obviously. But if he improves his shooting even corner 3s, and they replace beef stew with bojan, they’ll look much better.

[–] RGPISGOOD@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Pistons GM logic: "Ok we need to get Cade shooters this off-season"

drafts Ausar, adds Wiseman and Bagley

Ausar is amazing defensively but he is hurting them bad on the offensive end because of horrible spacing.

[–] GorillaX@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

"I don't think they are that bad" lol their 15 game winning streak would disagree with you.