That ability to flip the switch in a 1 score game with the clock winding down is what separates the good players from the great ones. Cade has that ability.
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Crazy that Cade finishes with 25 and it didnāt even seem like he started trying until the 4th haha
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And look at Cade taking the time to sign items for those kids after busting his ass all game. Love him. He fits this city as well as he fits the team.
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I wonder if Cleveland bitches about the Refs again, threaten to flop even more now.
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Flopping is the worst part of the NBA game imo. I feel like it needs to be called a whole lot more and should be an automatic technical.
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It is an automatic technical.
Guess how many times a flopping foul was called this year?
Ten. Ten freaking times in all games this year.!!! Cleveland could have been called ten times in this game alone.
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This was the first bad game I have seen Ausar play in awhile. More than one dumb foul hurt him. I hope he regains his composure for game 3. They will need him.
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Duran seems like 1/2 of an 80ās band, from what Iāve seen.
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I missed the last game, and Iāll miss the next oneā¦ But Iāll be watching Monday, if that game is even necessary
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Thank God we didnāt deal Tobias. With Duren unexplicably continuing to come up small, Unc has saved us, and is acting as a true number 2. Cāmon, Duren, wake up!!!
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Iāll fully admit Iām a fair weather NBA/Pistons fan. But I am laughing at all the talking dildos saying that New York has a clear path to the NBA finals, interviewing every Tom, Dick, and Harry supporting the team and how they feel about this potentially being the year with the clearest path to the Finals. Like Boston was the only ārealā threat to them. The Pistons absolutely molly whopped the Knicks all 3 games this season and theyāre the #1 Seed. Keep the bulletin board material coming, love it. Thatās assuming they take care of business against the Cavs of course which is not 100% guaranteed.
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We are the #1 seed but I feel like we had/have a much more difficult path through the playoffs than the Knicks. I think they got rather lucky.
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Detroit Pistons driving revolution in the NBA; league is better for it
Detroit isnāt leading this back-to-the-future revolt. The Oklahoma City Thunder deserve credit for that, if you can see past the foul-baiting. The Thunder won the title last year with shot-making, yes, but also with the NBAās best defense.
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Ausar Thompson arrives at just the right time
So, yeah: defense. Itās back. Sanctioned by the league. Catching on with officials. Welcomed by fans.
Itās not coincidental that ratings were up in the first round, even as scoring was down. Nobody wants to go back to the early 2000s and its final scores in the 60s ā well, except for maybe a few nostalgic Pistons fans who remember the āGoinā to Workā teams.
None of this is to say the league has solved its existential crises. The return of physicality and defense, however, is a start, and a boon to one of the most physical and athletic teams in the NBA.
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ā¦The league and its tastemakers get no flowers here; theyāve been slow to adapt to the outcry for the last half decade. Yet they finally seem to be listening: Defense is on the way back.
The Pistons are doing their best to take advantage.
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Yes, 3-point shooting still matters, but most of the best 3-point shooting teams ā by volume ā are done for the season. Of the NBAās top 10 teams in 3-point attempts per 100 possessions, only the New York Knicks (ninth, at 39.3 3s per 100 possessions) and Cleveland Cavaliers (seventh, at 39.7) remain.
Teams with title aspirations must make shots, of course, and the Pistons (who were 29th in 3PA/100, at 30.9) are making their share right now. Save for the first half of the Orlando series, theyāve been making 3-pointers for a while, mostly under the radar.
Did you know, for example, that the Pistons shot 37.2% beyond the arc over 18 games in March and 40.4% over six games in April ā when they went 5-1 to close the regular season? In all, after the All-Star break, the Pistons shot 37% on 3s.
Thatās worth noting. Itās also not a tiny sample size. Orlandoās defense was partly responsible for the dip in shooting ā 27.5% as the Pistons fell behind, 3-1 ā during the first round. So was inexperience. (Mr. Daniss Jenkins, anyone?).
The Pistons donāt escape the Magic without finding their range late in the series ā 39.8% in their final three wins. Nor are they leading Cleveland 2-0 without making shots; they made 14 3-pointers in Game 2 ā half of their 28 attempts.
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Iām not one to gamble on basketball much but right now the Pistons are looking like a reasonable play to be in the championship.
The are up 2-0 and they swept NY in the regular season.
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Get Morez Johnson! I donāt see the Pistons resigning Stewart after 2027 and some team will offer Reed a lot of money 
after next season 2027. Johnson bigger longer arm version of Stewart with more offensive upside
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Regular season donāt mean sh?t. Playoffs are different
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30 mil for duren! Heās not worth more
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You think the Knicks, who played a very competitive 6 games series against the up and coming Pistons last year, didnāt take those 4 regular season games seriously? Especially while looking up in the standings at the Pistons? You think they didnāt want home court advantage throughout the EC playoffs?
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Im tired of hearing about how great the Knicks are. I have completely tuned espn out of my life over it. Those guys are all Knicks nut sack lickers. Itās like they are the Cowboys of the NBA.
Of course they look good. They played Atlanta and the 6ers. Big hairy ass deal. Our first round opponent alone is a much better team than either of them. If we get by Cleveland we will kick the Knicks asses in 5 games.
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Its matchups and motivation. Magic coach knowing jb and running same system and perfect personnel vs pistons was hard. This round jb revenge tour. Next rd vs knicks is team revenge tour. Neither cavs or knicks match up good vs pistons.