its not all about the pistons but theres a bit on them and ive taken out the most important bit for you here, but theres another few paragraphs if you want.
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But here's the thing... they look like they're finding out what they want to be. Watch the Pistons and you're finding a team that shares the ball, that cuts and finds gas to force the extra defender, then delivers the pass for the easy dunk. Josh Smith has been fantastic and finding his bigs. Twenty-seven of Smith's 63 assists have gone to Andre Drummond or Greg Monroe. When they commit to that, that's when they're at their best.
And still, they're one of the lowest teams in assisted field goals. That would tell you that they're working on creating shots for themselves, but that's not really the case. Synergy Sportsjavascript:mctmp(0); lists that the Pistons spend just eight percent of their time in Isolation, 16th in the league. But they're also 8th best in points per possession in isolation, compared to 27th in spot-up situations... which account for the highest percentage of their shots. What do these numbers mean? They work really hard to consistently create good looks for their offense... and then they don't make the shots. Their best offense is when they create shots using isolation or off offensive rebounds.
All this is to say that the Pistons don't have an identity yet, but they're working on it. There have been some positive signs from them. But if they want to go forward, someone's going to have to figure out how to make a friggin shot. That's the one identity they have right now: they can't shoot.
So basically, we have low assist numbers, which would mean we are playing iso ball all game right? wrong. our spot up shooting tendency is the highest of any shot creation method, isolation is actually the lowest of all (below other things like post ups, off rebounds etc.) despite being effective in the limited times it is used. so the thing is, we are doing a good job of creating good shots, but no one can put them down.
Is this something that eventually has to move back towards the mean as guys finally make shots or is this something that is just a roster/personnel problem? When this years roster was created, this was one of the worries that a lot of us discussed, so im leaning towards this just being a problem of we have no shooters. however you look at some of the players on the roster to be the 'shooters', and they are all shooting crazy low 3PT percentages. singler at 31.5%, pope at 28.8%, gigi at 20%, josh smith who is shooting 4.7 per game at 27%. Jennings is the highest at just 34.2%. These guys can shoot, and eventually these numbers have to increase.
What's your take on this? are you happy with the offense and think the shots will fall, or does something have to change?
Yeah, I guess we'd just have to take the bitter with the sweet! 
