I think Gores will sell sooner than we expect. Revenue will decrease and the NBA won’t be able to cover it forever. He is an equity guy, he buys and flips businesses. Once the Pistons growth rate shows decline he’s done. Hopefully after that we’ll get a decent owner.
Cade isn’t playing elite but he’s not playing bad. He’ll be fine. He’s on par for a solid night regardless of the outcome unless he completely bombs the 2nd half.
His name rhymes with Haden Rivey
We sadly didn’t have the assets OKC had/has. SVG did a number on this team that set us back years.
Cade started 1-8, ended 11-27. That means he went 10-19 after the bad start. Honestly, he needs to learn how to leverage his ability to create for himself into getting to the line. He relies on jumpers and contested layups way too much. If he learns how to get to the line, I genuinely can see him averaging 27-30 points per game. Call me crazy, but he’s already at 24 PPG on 41% shooting. Imagine getting to the line 5-8 more times a game. Aside from that, these are young team losses. The process of becoming a winning team is generally expedited by having good vets. Ours are injured so the team is organically learning how to play winning ball in the NBA. Good thing is this might mean we have a TON of depth when everyone comes back. Monty looks like a good development coach but not an X’s and O’s coach. Kind of the opposite of Casey in a way. Tough loss, but I’ll take these over the debacles against OKC, NO and Portland.
Cade has yet to play with two wingers in his career. When the Mavs Drafted Luka, they cut DSJ because they knew to put their franchise guy in the best position to succeed. Meanwhile we’re still starting Hayes for some reason. Teams draft duds it happens. Warriors cut loose with Wiseman, Charlotte cut loose with Bouknight, yet we’re actively hurting our main guy because of this Hayes situation. It’s really annoying. Once Bojan and Livers come back, he needs to be benched for good.
I don’t think it comes from him, I think it comes from Tom Gores…… about him.