Betrayer

Why are we still having Cade bring the ball up the court against full court pressure? Does he not expend enough energy as it is? So stupid.

I guess we can just scream in guys faces after we dunk now?

Ausar seems to have no issue finishing with Allen right there. Maybe it’s his speed to sneak it in there.

Shooting 12% from three. Cariss, Robinson, and Daniss have been baaaad. Think JB gives Lanier, Sasser, or Huerter any run?

This game thread feels like when I had season tickets back in the 2010-2015 era.

Complete the Jaden Ivey circle and sign him.

Allen is out there grabbing, holding, moving on screens and yet he’s getting call after call. Pistons can’t buy a free throw.

Robinson is off. Sit him because he’s a liability when he’s not hitting shots. Give me Lanier for 5 minutes just to see or just put in another defender.

Defense has picked up.

Is there a superstar that gets more done with less fouls called for him than Cade? Imagine if he got calls.

Why is Lavert still on the court? Please make it stop. The pictures he’s holding over your heads can’t be that bad.

So many moving screens from their bigs.

Cade’s shooting over a road cone whenever Schroeder is in there. Keep going to it.

Wanting to score all your points in the paint against a team with a good defensive front line makes it rough. We can’t shoot, so you need to double down on defense to get into transition and get offensive rebounds. It’s really the only chance. It’s not like we’re going to get calls from the refs no matter how many times we take it to the paint.

And now Careless fouls a 3 point shooter. Ausar would’ve been benched for the rest of the game.

At this point I’d be giving Lanier some run. Gotta find someone who doesn’t mind playing defense that can hit a shot.

First Ivey, now Jenkins, it doesn’t matter - they’re all better when Lavert is out with injury.

I just want to point out that Cade is averaging 1 block and 1.5 steals per game.

We're probably talking about Bobi Klintman's spot here, so it's not like it's a high bar.

Hand is part of the ball so that's a great target for teams swiping down on him. He'll probably aggravate it enough to have surgery by April to find a way to leave another team hanging in the playoffs.

His 3pt shooting has really fallen off compared to his time in MIL, but I'm not sure what kind of looks he's getting these days compared to back then. Probably worth a roster spot for a 6' 7" guy with championship experience that will at least have gravity whether he hits shots or not.

The good news is that the Knicks and Cavs are now tied. Hopefully the Cavs can pass them up and duke it out with Boston in round 2 while we get our revenge on the Knicks who I think are a much better matchup for us than either of those other teams.

They primarily lost this game because they shot 19% from 3. Pistons are a poor shooting team, but this was far worse than normal. Credit to Spurs defense, but they also missed a ton of wide open looks. On the other end, the Spurs were hitting their open 3s. That said, this was a 1 point game with 8 minutes to go in the third when JB and Ausar got into it over a missed defensive assignment and JB benched him for the remainder of the game (as reported by Ku). JB covered it by saying that it was because Ron was playing well, but that was obvious B.S. Never mind that the team was better on offense when Ausar was in the game, and obviously better on defense. Never mind that the 4 times they tried to put Wemby on Ausar and have him roam, we scored on three of those possessions. Never mind that Duncan Robinson gets cooked every time they go after him or that Careless Lavert dribbles it off his foot or that Daniss was having an off night. None of that matters, but let's make an example of the best perimeter defender in the league and our second most impactful player on the team. JB is an absolute terrorist when it comes to Ausar. It cost us the first round series last year and it has cost us (or nearly cost us) numerous times already this year. It has to stop. I'm not saying they would've won with him on the court, but it certainly would've been a much closer game with a few extra stops, a few extra possessions, and some easy transition buckets.

Because we were struggling to guard the Wemby pick and roll. He would dive to the paint and we had 2 guys collapsing on him to body him up so he couldn't just dunk it. That left dudes wide open on the perimeter and the recovery wasn't fast enough.

Damn. Another $5 to Sling for a 24 hour pass.