12/28/25 9:00PM Pistons @ Clippers

[Tigeraholic1]

Intuit Dome - Inglewood, CA

[Deleterious]

Leonard is shooting 98.2% from the free throw line this year.  98.05% is the single season record held by Jose Calderon.  

[Hongbit]

They couldn’t have scripted a worse start.  Cade with 0 points and 3 fouls not even 14 minutes into the game.  

Edited December 29, 2025 by Hongbit

[Deleterious]

This is ugly

[Deleterious]

It isn't even all bad defense. Leonard just won't miss.

[Deleterious]

Leonard had made 60 free throws in a row. 

[Deleterious]

Duren just took a jumper that went behind the backboard.

[Deleterious]

Kawhi gets his 50 piece before the end of the third quarter.

[papalawrence]

When he is healthy and focused Leonard is still a top 5 talent. That game was nuts. Cade scored all 27 of his points in the 2nd half. Hopefully they shoot better vs LAL

[Deleterious]

Cade didn't score in the 1st half and is still the leading scorer by 9 points at the end of the game.

Not only do the Pistons need a 2nd scorer, they might need a third and fourth as well.  

[buddha]

they have one shooter on the whole team.

[Deleterious]

Teams in the top 10 for 3PT% right now:

Milwaukee 

Atlanta

Miami

Clippers

Bulls

So 50% of the top 10 teams are not even in the playoffs right now.  A few are playin teams, rest are completely out.  

[gehringer_2]

17 minutes ago, buddha said:

they have one shooter on the whole team.

At this point the best chance comes back to Ivey. His 3pt% is hovering around 40% and he has the best non-big man eFG on the team after Robinson. The Question is whether he can bring the rest of his game to where he can get the minutes to make a difference.

[1984Echoes]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

At this point the best chance comes back to Ivey. His 3pt% is hovering around 40% and he has the best non-big man eFG on the team after Robinson. The Question is whether he can bring the rest of his game to where he can get the minutes to make a difference.

Say Ivey is still on the team after we trade for a 3 & D guy. Just for speculative purposes...

And let's call him (traded for guy) a small forward.

That would push Duncan to the bench and with him and Ivey and Stew coming in, that might just be a pretty dangerous bench...

But we would require Duncan's replacement to have range, otherwise Cade will be suffering greatly with the starting 5... and he would definitely have to be better D than Duncan. (Hence 3&D (need)).

Edited December 29, 2025 by 1984Echoes

[casimir]

I had planned on watching this game tonight, right about now.  I found out the score by accident this morning.  I guess if I’m going to lose interest on a game by finding out the hard way, this is probably one of the ones that I’m fine to have that happen with.

[papalawrence]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

I had planned on watching this game tonight, right about now.  I found out the score by accident this morning.  I guess if I’m going to lose interest on a game by finding out the hard way, this is probably one of the ones that I’m fine to have that happen with.

Unless you want to see Kawhi play a near flawless game. Might be a top 10-20 game I have ever seen

[casimir]

2 hours ago, papalawrence said:

Unless you want to see Kawhi play a near flawless game. Might be a top 10-20 game I have ever seen

So that means he’ll have to rest for a few games.

I won’t deny the guy’s talent.  But I like availability, which he lacks in for whatever reason.