Let’s all take a sec and appreciate that we finally have a coach that is holding our players accountable.
As much as I love Ivey and think he’s going to be a great player, the horrid defense and turnovers are things that need to be improved on if he wants to stay on the floor.
Hopefully Wiseman getting a DNP lights a fire under his ass and maybe he starts setting actual screens and playing some defense.
The Casey days are over, no more blatant tank jobs (at least hopefully not right after the ASB anymore) and no more BS on the court that our young guys get to play through for “development”. Development will come if our boys are playing high level basketball on a consistent basis. Praising effort, defense, and high BBIQ is how Detroit has always done it.
We are so back. Cade is Him. Go Pistons.
TLDR: thank god we’re not putting a circus act out on the floor every night anymore
I get that, but to me it was pretty clear that the only reason he had such a long leash is because half our squad was shut down and we were in full tank mode. When Eugene Omoruyi is getting 20-30 minutes it’s really hard for me to take anything away from the games at all.
I feel like people are constantly overreacting to meaningless games—like how during the preseason all those people were saying that we should be concerned about Cade, and that Ausar might be the best player on the team. All it took was literally one half of an actual meaningful game to prove them all wrong