Would be a good backup for Collin Gillespie

Honestly he’s not very efficient and super ball dominant. He makes the offense a lot less dynamic, so it would make sense they don’t really lose much during the regular season. Playoff time is when his real impact shines through. He’ll be able to uphold an offense against more physical defenses

He’s not. They just play a non ball centric style without him. It’s just different. Jenkins and their guards have held it down

You’re gonna keep him in your room or something?

Fade Cade

He plays best when he’s starting, he’s been very bad as the lead guard off the bench this season

The reason this team is underrated nationally is because Jenkins came out of nowhere and if you don’t watch the team you don’t know how important he is. If he had come into the league with the draft pedigree of Ivey people would be like “oh shit now that Ivey’s got it working look out”

Jenkins has cooked my Sixers every time I’ve watched them play. He’s legit.

The point is…everyone knows Cade is a stud, but I felt like most people were saying their offense would drop off so much without him. Jenkins and their guards have done an outstanding job in his place. They just play a slightly different non ball centric style.

Pistons championship would be sick tbh, y’all had an amazing rebuild

100%, any team that plays as hard as they do are dangerous regardless of who they may be missing.

Part of me knew they had a ton of talent outside of him, so I was wondering why they were gassing him up so much for mvp as the most important piece to any team in the league because of his lack of supporting cast. All I heard was they have no other ball handlers or initiators.

No team has won a championship without a top ~5 player in over 20 years.

I think you guys have a great squad and a bright future, but I just don’t believe in Cade enough (yet) to think of yall as contenders.

I don’t think it’s “hating” to simply acknowledge that you guys winning a ship this year would be unprecedented.

To be fair Daniss Jenkins could not have been predicted

Duren is getting recognition but is massively underrated

There defense is legit, nobody other than Shai could do literally anything and even he wasn’t good in the first half.

Playoffs are different though I don’t think they win more than 1 game against playoff OKC in a series

It’s completely fair given this core hasn’t even won a playoff series yet. Playoff basketball is almost a different sport compared to regular season basketball.

No playoff experience. Their vets are Duncan Robinson & Tobias Harris - not bad players but the team does get labelled as Cade & friends.

Experience and public perception play a huge role, not making past the second round is big OKC even with their amazing season last year were behind Denver odds wise most of the time. Once they sweep the first round and one of the Cavs/Knicks underperform they will jump to second behind the Cs.

I wish we got to play the Knicks in round 2, since it’ll probably be the Cavs. If it was the Knicks, we’d be clear favorites. We beat them 3-0 this season. And it was not close, we won by 31, 38, and 15 lmao.

Its funny because people bring up lack of playoff experience, but then at the same time the spurs are second in odds in the west despite even less experience and a younger team.

We should definitely be behind Boston. Amazing coaching. Two elite wing players. Maybe behind Cleveland as they can match up with our bigs. But New York? Eh. Unless KAT gets hot I wouldn’t expect us to lose that series.

All 3 of these teams have actually won playoff series…..

I mean Knicks is the only questionable one there. We demolished both those teams and it wasn’t even competitive.

Behind the Knicks is funny

A lot of guys sucked after the break

I wish, it’s so embarrassing to read that stuff.

Both wins to wolves were without Ant as well. Context does matter still.

Jenkins is 6’4”. He’s small compared to Cade, but height-wise is completely fine for a guard.

He is, however, very light. Which is why they need to play much faster - he can’t bully nobody to the post.

The starting lineup is pretty much set in stone PG Cade (facilitator), SG Duncan (shooter), SF Ausar (main perimeter defender), PF Tobias (floor spacer), C Duren (rebounder and paint scorer).

This has been a trend his entire career, the Pistons since he signed has a higher winning % when he doesn’t play with a better drtg and points per possession.

He’s been the least efficient 20ppg scorer in the league 3 years and is top 10 in turnovers. It’s a fascinating case study of what “winning basketball” is. I personally don’t think what he does is that, and is more just evidence of having the ultimate green light and 35%+ usage.

He definitely deserves to be in MVP talks. You think Cade is the only MVP caliber player that has a deep team?

Thunder, Spurs, and Nuggets are all good teams even without their main guy.

Aight bro chill. Im a Pistons fan but I know a part of their success is still because of a lack of scouting knowledge due to a little simple size.