12/3/25 - Detroit Pistons @ Milwaukee Bucks - 8PM ET

Absolutia · Post #101 » by **Absolutia** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:32 am

We'll lose a lot more games if we play anything like this.

bstein14 · Post #102 » by **bstein14** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:32 am

Holland and LeVert combined 3-20 and -42 in 40 minutes played.

Came out dominating early. Stew throws away his night.

Cade being 5-15 also not great but at least he only had 2 TOs. His worst outing of the season.

Post #103 » by **Snakebites** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:33 am

I won’t overreact to one awful game.

We had this coming though. This team has not played well the last week or so. We simply haven’t.

engelbert321 · Post #104 » by **engelbert321** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:34 am

Gutless loss. We’re back to our usual .500 type of team. We’re definitely more 4-6th in the East

NYPiston · Post #105 » by **NYPiston** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:34 am

Absolutia wrote:We'll lose a lot more games if we play anything like this.

The losses are coming, the schedule gets a lot tougher. The Pistons are a good team but their record is inflated by a very easy schedule.

chilluminati · Post #106 » by **chilluminati** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:34 am

Really bad loss. We looked very very weak. Just straight up bad games from the players we need to have good games for us to win. We let them linger and we paid for it. Got punked straight up by a worse team, they should feel bad about this one. Schedule is tighening up and we're seeing the results. We have a lot to figure out.

Bad loss but damn pump the brakes a bit on the dooming, this game thread is pathetic.

Rip32 · Post #107 » by **Rip32** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:35 am

NYPiston wrote:This might be a controversial statement but Cade hasn't really been that good this season. Way too many turnovers and highly inefficient.

Facts! His stamina isn't great and it effects his whole game. No way zeke would let us lose this game. Cunningham a star but he's not superstar. The team is still mentally weak. Langdon better be working them phones

bstein14 · Post #108 » by **bstein14** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:36 am

Duncan Robinson might be more important that we know. Just a guy you can go to who's always willing to shoot.

Tobias was really good tonight. Ivey was solid. Paul Reed came in and played well after Stew got kicked out. Green was solid in his minutes.

Everyone else was kind of ****.

smann7 · Post #109 » by **smann7** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:37 am

We are bound to rough stretches, until tonight we have mostly been able to still get a win.

Getting Duncan’s 3 ball back in the lineup will be nice.

Cade needs to ease up on the 3 pt shots

We have to be intentional getting Duren involved, keep playing good defense and we will be ok.

Fennis Dembo · Post #110 » by **Fennis Dembo** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:38 am

Rip32 wrote:Are we showcasing LaVert?

Not well.

tmorgan · Post #111 » by **tmorgan** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:39 am

Time for a regroup. We’ve been mediocre as hell for 2 weeks now.

engelbert321 · Post #112 » by **engelbert321** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:40 am

The main thing I saw during this game is we are EASILY and I mean EASILY guarded by the zone defense.

tmorgan · Post #113 » by **tmorgan** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:41 am

engelbert321 wrote:The main thing I saw during this game is we are EASILY and I mean EASILY guarded by the zone defense.

I mean. We currently have one elite shooter and he wasn’t playing, so yeah, zone us up.

DetroitSho · Post #114 » by **DetroitSho** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:42 am

The extremes some of y'all suffer from is scary. Anyway, this team just flat out needs more shooting. It's not that complex. If Robinson was playing and on his game, we win because that zone wouldn't have bogged us down.

I swear I wish this Malik Beasley situation ended tomorrow. Bad shooting severely limits our ceiling. It directly ties to the offensive performance of our 2 most important players on offense. We can either be a Finals contender with it or a 2nd round out without it.

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Rip32 · Post #115 » by **Rip32** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:42 am

The problem with Harris is defensively. He's a streaky scorer but defensively he's awful imo.

Turnerovers are going to catch up to us. JBs lousy rotations doesn't help.

Our zone defense stinks! JALEN DUREN is not a great defender. We play zone to hide his deficiencies

catari11 · Post #116 » by **catari11** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:43 am

JB is faulted (yet again) for this fiasco. bad substitutions and coaching all round. As for Holland and Thompson --- Bucks left them wide open and begged them to shoot. brilliant strategy b/c they sucked. Jenkins not much better. He's clearly not the three point shooter or ball handler Pistons need. Levert was horrible. And, Cade continues to make the same mistakes down the stretch. Losing to Giannis-less Bucks team glaring reveals how far the team is from a champion mentality.

bstein14 · Post #117 » by **bstein14** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:44 am

Snakebites wrote:I won’t overreact to one awful game.

We had this coming though. This team has not played well the last week or so. We simply haven’t.

Really since the Pacers game.... it feels like we've been underperforming.

It's also the game Ivey came back... he was good tonight but it feels like we've lost some of that dog. Maybe its because guys are tired... maybe its because the chemistry took a bit of a hit when guys were playing good and minutes got cut... hard to say exactly why but this team isn't playing as well.

tmorgan · Post #118 » by **tmorgan** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:44 am

Rip32 wrote:The problem with Harris is defensively. He's a streaky scorer but defensively he's awful imo.

Turnerovers are going to catch up. JBs lousy rotations doesn't help

Harris is fine on guys that score free throw line and in. He’s strong and knows his positioning. He’s slowly losing mobility, though, which is undoubtedly making guarding out at the line harder.

Post #119 » by **Snakebites** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:45 am

bstein14 wrote:
Snakebites wrote:I won’t overreact to one awful game.

We had this coming though. This team has not played well the last week or so. We simply haven’t.

Really since the Pacers game.... it feels like we've been underperforming.

It's also the game Ivey came back... he was good tonight but it feels like we've lost some of that dog. Maybe its because guys are tired... maybe its because the chemistry took a bit of a hit when guys were playing good and minutes got cut... hard to say exactly why but this team isn't playing as well.

Even the wins we've gotten in that time frame have been frustrating.

Disappointed to see us lose this game but again, it felt like we were building towards this. Hopefully this is as bad as it gets.

DetroitSho · Post #120 » by **DetroitSho** » Thu Dec 4, 2025 3:48 am

bstein14 wrote:
Snakebites wrote:I won’t overreact to one awful game.

We had this coming though. This team has not played well the last week or so. We simply haven’t.

Really since the Pacers game.... it feels like we've been underperforming.

It's also the game Ivey came back... he was good tonight but it feels like we've lost some of that dog. Maybe its because guys are tired... maybe its because the chemistry took a bit of a hit when guys were playing good and minutes got cut... hard to say exactly why but this team isn't playing as well.

The problem ain't Ivey, it's this "is it MY turn yet coach" basketball we're playing. This trying to get 11-12 guys minutes is stupid. Make some hard decisions and f'ing stick with them ffs.

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