Jerami Grant commits to Team USA

BJK1 · Post #1 » by **BJK1** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:20 pm

DBC10 · Post #2 » by **DBC10** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:41 pm

This will be a big year for him then. Hopefully he learns all he can from KD & Khris Middleton and tears it up for us with Cade

bstein14 · Post #3 » by **bstein14** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:42 pm

That's exciting for us to get to see Grant compete with the best of the best. The only downside is its less time to work on individual skillset improvements but overall I think it's a huge thing for him to get recognized like this it wasn't long ago he was just considered a roll player before he came to Detroit.

bstein14 · Post #4 » by **bstein14** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:44 pm

It seems like yesterday they had 11 players and today Grant was the 12th and final player added to the roster.

chrbal · Post #5 » by **chrbal** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:45 pm

And if he does some light recruiting for (most likely) Cade and the Pistons organization, all the better.

zeebneeb · Post #6 » by **zeebneeb** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:56 pm

Well, just add that to Weavers list of accomplishments.

He added an Olympic level basketball player to the damn team.

Glad to see a Piston repping the City, and state on the world stage.

tmorgan · Post #7 » by **tmorgan** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:59 pm

This is actually a pretty big deal for Jerami. Very big, even. Stature of players matters to other players, and he just climbed a couple of rungs, I’d guess.

bstein14 · Post #8 » by **bstein14** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:11 pm

Jerami Grant (F)
Zach Lavine (G)
Kevin Durant (F)
Damian Lilliard (G)
Bradley Beal (G)
Bam Adebayo (F/C)
Jason Tatum (F)
Draymond Green (F)
Kevin Love (F)
Khris Middleton (G/F)
Jrue Holiday (G)
Devin Booker (G)

Interesting that they went with a roster with just one center. I'm guessing that's part of the appeal of Grant, a big who can shoot the ball.... I wonder if they'll run in to many other countries with traditional bigs and how they will end up fairing against them.

ComboGuardCity · Post #9 » by **ComboGuardCity** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:16 pm

Wow happy for the guy!! This is better than any offseason workout

FloridaMan78 · Post #10 » by **FloridaMan78** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:23 pm

Great week for the Pistons. Hopefully Grant and Zack Lavine have some chemistry together, he’ll for sure be a free agent next year. Cade/Lavine/Bey/Grant/Stewart please.

DetroitSho · Post #11 » by **DetroitSho** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:34 pm

bstein14 wrote:That's exciting for us to get to see Grant compete with the best of the best. The only downside is its less time to work on individual skillset improvements but overall I think it's a huge thing for him to get recognized like this it wasn't long ago he was just considered a roll player before he came to Detroit.

What better way to work on your skillset than to practice daily with the best players in the league.

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Kilo · Post #12 » by **Kilo** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:52 pm

Recruitment can go both ways as well. These players could sell Jerami Grant on their respective teams. I'd be okay with that ultimately as well - if Jerami asked to be traded sorta deal. Draymond selling him on GSW would be near ideal IMO.

FloridaMan78 · Post #13 » by **FloridaMan78** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:18 pm

Kilo wrote:Recruitment can go both ways as well. These players could sell Jerami Grant on their respective teams. I'd be okay with that ultimately as well - if Jerami asked to be traded sorta deal. Draymond selling him on GSW would be near ideal IMO.

So you’d want Grant traded for draft picks? You think this team needs future draft picks or Wiseman?

IMO the easiest way to keep Cade happy here in Detroit is to win. It’s not like Grant and Lavine are old, they both easily have 5-7 more good years left in them.

I get tanking and draft picks all over the place, but eventually don’t you want to start winning?

MotownMadness · Post #14 » by **MotownMadness** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:57 pm

Fun times my friends

stylesofpunk · Post #15 » by **stylesofpunk** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:04 am

FloridaMan78 wrote:Great week for the Pistons. Hopefully Grant and Zack Lavine have some chemistry together, he’ll for sure be a free agent next year. Cade/Lavine/Bey/Grant/Stewart please.

Beal and Durant could as well just saying with Durant

Also kyrie

There is 4 guys who could be available next offseason

bstein14 · Post #16 » by **bstein14** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:18 am

DetroitSho wrote:
bstein14 wrote:That's exciting for us to get to see Grant compete with the best of the best. The only downside is its less time to work on individual skillset improvements but overall I think it's a huge thing for him to get recognized like this it wasn't long ago he was just considered a roll player before he came to Detroit.
What better way to work on your skillset than to practice daily with the best players in the league.

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When you're playing and preparing for specific teams you are gameplanung against you won't have as much time to work on specific skills. I'm pretty sure Grant wanted to work on passing out of double teams and no one is double teaming him on this roster haha. It's more about repetively working on specific areas over and over again that you can't do when you are part of a team playing games.

That said, I'm 100% certain Grant will gain from this experience and it will further his ability to lead Detroit. It's a win win for him and Detroit.

whitehops · Post #17 » by **whitehops** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:29 am

DetroitSho wrote:What better way to work on your skillset than to practice daily with the best players in the league.

when it comes to individual skills (like dribbling, shooting, etc.) off season work with a trainer is much more beneficial. you get 100% of the reps, 100% of the attention from the trainer and you have a rebounder to give you even more reps. in a team practice you're often practicing team drills, and any individual drills there might be you're only doing a fraction of the reps you would be doing with individual training.

for our own selfish reasons it'd be better if grant just stayed in the lab all off season but obviously you have to be happy for him to be on team USA. dude was a sixth man two seasons ago and now he's representing his country in the olympics.

Pharaoh · Post #18 » by **Pharaoh** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:56 am

Considering why he chose to come here this is the perfect opportunity for him to speak to "big name" players.

Pipedream it might be but who knows when a "star" might choose to team up with a buddy and come here?

Cade + Grant + Weaver + Max money = ?

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DetroitSho · Post #19 » by **DetroitSho** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:08 am

bstein14 wrote:
DetroitSho wrote:
bstein14 wrote:That's exciting for us to get to see Grant compete with the best of the best. The only downside is its less time to work on individual skillset improvements but overall I think it's a huge thing for him to get recognized like this it wasn't long ago he was just considered a roll player before he came to Detroit.
What better way to work on your skillset than to practice daily with the best players in the league.

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When you're playing and preparing for specific teams you are gameplanung against you won't have as much time to work on specific skills. I'm pretty sure Grant wanted to work on passing out of double teams and no one is double teaming him on this roster haha. It's more about repetively working on specific areas over and over again that you can't do when you are part of a team playing games.

That said, I'm 100% certain Grant will gain from this experience and it will further his ability to lead Detroit. It's a win win for him and Detroit.

How do you work on passing out of double teams on an individual basis? You literally need to be playing or scrimmaging.

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DetroitSho · Post #20 » by **DetroitSho** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:15 am

whitehops wrote:
DetroitSho wrote:What better way to work on your skillset than to practice daily with the best players in the league.

when it comes to individual skills (like dribbling, shooting, etc.) off season work with a trainer is much more beneficial. you get 100% of the reps, 100% of the attention from the trainer and you have a rebounder to give you even more reps. in a team practice you're often practicing team drills, and any individual drills there might be you're only doing a fraction of the reps you would be doing with individual training.

for our own selfish reasons it'd be better if grant just stayed in the lab all off season but obviously you have to be happy for him to be on team USA. dude was a sixth man two seasons ago and now he's representing his country in the olympics.

The Pistons season ended close to 2 months ago. The Olympics ain't for another month. That's 3 months of individual work. Then about 2 months straight of playing with and against the best players in the world on a daily basis. Then another 2+ months of individual work again before the season starts.

Quite frankly I like it better that way because he can have a more immediate litmus test of his results and then go back and put the finishing touches on his improvement right before the season.

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