Cade Cunningham Just Might Not Be a No. 1 Option
www.theringer.com
Various advanced stats place the third-year Pistons guard in discouraging company. What does that mean for Cunningham’s future—and what about his team’s?
  • looonspaceBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    40/31/84 splits - 49%TS

    7.1 assists - 4.8 turnovers

  • mMounirMBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    damn before I started reading this I was like “man stop bullying this guy”

    but the author went all in with the stats and analytics supporting his points

  • SerialRapperBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    “Inefficiency” might sound like an analytics buzzword, but it matters a great deal. Cunningham’s true shooting percentage means he’s scored 50 fewer points than expected this season given his volume, per Basketball-Reference, which is the second-worst figure leaguewide. For reference, Nikola Jokic has 41 more points than expected—meaning Cunningham has cost the Pistons more points with his shooting than Jokic has added to the Nuggets.

    Genuinely insane stat lol

  • rumblegodBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Bad shooter, but Cade passes the eye test of being able to get a bucket, create and poise. Basically he has a high floor. Can’t drop Cade till he’s actually bad on a supposed good team.

  • Far-Blacksmith-2604BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s not the advanced stats, it’s the basic shooting percentages. He takes a lot of shots, and makes a below average amount of them. That’s literally all it is.

  • tarunpopoBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Cade, Ivey, Ausar, stewart and Duren have shared 5 minutes together. Medical staff fails every era in the last 15 years to keep guys healthy. These young guys don’t deserve to be on the pistons where careers go to die

    Also tons of cade hate saying he’s not that guy? This team is basketball terrorism in the modern era. Nobody is playing well on this team. Also what happened to giving guards time to adjust to the league?

  • dys0n_giddeyBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Monty got PAID to develop these guys, it’s not looking great so far…

  • tarunpopoBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Y’all just stop this team is already down bad enough this season 😭 I blame Tom gores this idiot ruined the franchise, and every part of his staff.

    Free cade bro, if he was on a proper team he wouldn’t be as bad and get to develop the finer parts of his game