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18 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Tell me again how Cade isn't a star.

 

The only thing stopping him from being on all-nba teams is his atrocious 3 point shot.   Once he puts in enough time and effort to become a quality shooter everyone in the league will take notice. 

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I might have given him the night off either way.

The Pistons have played the most games in the league at 17.  You still have some teams that have only played 13.  I believe they also have the most b2b games so far.  A night off wouldn't be the worst thing.

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Cade needs to play better defense and stop turning the ball over. He is on pace for a career high 4.6 TO per game. Love the guy just needs to clean it up. I see the injury is listed as some type hip joint sprain.  

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Cade has one big thing he needs to fix to become great and he does it by doing 3 smaller things.

The big thing is becoming more efficient.  53% TS% is a joke, like Killian Hayes is the punchline to that joke.  57-58 would be better, but the elites can get it over 60%.  This is by far the #1 thing he needs to fix.

The three things that can help with that?  Finish at the rim better.  Develop more of a mid-range game.  Draw more FTA's.

Finishing at the rim is self explanatory.  He gets to the rim a lot but shoots a low percentage in the restricted area and in the paint.  

Developing a better mid-range game would help.  Yeah its an inefficient shot compared to the 3PT shot or dunk.  But it is the shot defensives give up the most, so good players need to hit it.  Elbow extended jumper and a little floater would do wonders to help his game.

Drawing more FTA's is probably the biggest thing he needs to do to improve his efficiency.  When you draw a shooting foul that shot doesn't count.  If he can turn 2-3 of his misses into fouls, you are taking those off of your box score and its much easier to score at the line.  All that means increased efficiency.  

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1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Drawing more FTA's is probably the biggest thing he needs to do to improve his efficiency. 

I've always thought that was an aspect with Cade that was maybe oversold. He doesn't seem to have the lightning kind of quickness to draw an above average rate of fouls. He did improve from his rookie year to last year, but not much change in FTA so far this year.

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From an article in The Athletic.

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Saturday’s 111-100 loss to the Magic was the 10th time this season the Pistons have allowed an opposing player to score at least 30 points. Only Indiana and Chicago have given up more.

 

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