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I feel better about the Duncan Robinson signing after tonight. I was really getting nervous about it. This game gives me some hope.

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All this is great from Cade. But the best part is the low turnovers. I don't even care about all the assists. I just want more games like this with low turnovers.

Finally, a call our way. Cade earned that and the Pistons deserved it.

We miss Dennis Schroder.

I take back what out I said about Duncan Robinson earlier. All the sudden, he is hunting his shot and showing he can be successful shooting it under some pressure.

That was a great block. But he bailed Banchero out like two possessions before that with a body check foul that led to an And 1. He does that once or twice a game. The next step for him is becoming a more consistent on ball defender. He's not bad but I want him to be great on defense. It doesn't help we ask him to expend so much energy initiating offense. Overall, he is playing great tonight. No turnovers...knock on wood.

I was going to post earlier that I think Duren is the guy to trade. I just don't trust him. I also think we would probably be screwed without him, for this year at least.

Cade woke up. Nice second quarter.

Was Duncan Robinson this slow to get a shot off with Miami? Or did he just have more wide open shots? It seems like he has a real hard time getting shots up against any kind of decent closeout.

The Ausar situation is going to become uncomfortable at some point. Teams are not going to guard him on the perimeter and we don't have the firepower to make up for it.

Almost everything we are seeing from this team so far screams they are taking a step back this year. They better hope Ivey rounds into form quick when he gets healthy.

I still love Ausar's future but the fact teams teams are daring him to shoot is messing with his head. He can't drive aggressively because teams are collapsing. And he ends up with some awkward looking drives.

I would have expected Cade to come out more aggressive after Monday night's performance.

Yeah...that was a bad break. Hard to blame Langdon there. He knew we were screwed without more shooting and did the best he could with what he had to work with.

Totally agree about THJ. I am not sure why we swapped him out for Levert. I guess we haven't see enough of Levert yet but give me Hardaway's three point shooting over whatever it is going to be that Levert provides us.

Not having Ivey sucks but they didn't have Ivey most of last year. Losing Beasley is just the killer IMO. Even against good defense, he could still usually get a three up that had a reasonable chance of going in. The Cavs just suffocated us in that second quarter and we had no answer.

I can take a bad game from Cade. That's not a big deal. But 4 games in, he looks like the same player as last year. If there was going to be improvement to go from really good to great, it is likely we would have seen it by now. Hopefully an injury is bothering him because it's kind of a letdown that we have not seen another step from him this year.

Fair. But how has he only shot 2 free throws? If you are the star and your team can't get a basket for 6 minutes, you have to get to the line.

Pistons need to throw their bodies into Cleveland when going up at the basket. Don't make it easy for their shot blockers.

Cade needs to drive every time. The refs will give us some calls out of sympathy at this point.

I am all for grinding out ugly wins but this is too much. It's frustrating that Cade can look this bad when we need him to lift us out of this funk. There is a lid on the basket right now.

Ausar is looking like he is making a big leap this year. Star in the making. Still have not seen Cade's best this season. Another 5 turnovers tonight and only halfway thru the third.

Is there anybody in the league better in that situation? He's got to be in the top 5 at least.

The bench feels really thin. And now Holland has 3 fouls.