James Harden Turns Back Clock, Drops 50 Points On Detroit Pistons, Cade Cunningham As Detroit Falls
James Harden’s explosive 50-point game left the Pistons reeling, highlighting their need for strategic adjustments. Cade Cunningham shone brightly, delivering an impressive 37 points, 10 assists, and seven rebounds, showcasing his potential as a future NBA superstar. Meanwhile, Dennis Schröder’s impactful performance with 21 points and seven assists provided a much-needed boost during non-Cade minutes.
Ku Khahil breaks down the Pistons’ defensive struggles and the importance of blitzing Harden more effectively. He also discusses the tight race in the Eastern Conference standings and the Pistons’ upcoming schedule.
Will the Pistons find a way to tighten their defense and maintain their standing in the league? Tune in for an in-depth analysis and insights into the Pistons’ path forward.
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29 Comments
Ivey call Threeasley ❤! Dennis 👀
Dennis was great 🎉
Clipps minus 3 starters…they were on a back to back….they just lost to the horrible Suns…and this happens! Adversity knocking on the door?
Wasting Ausar's D on Bgie instead of Harden a BIT of a MISTAKE??????????? Monumental…a .better word for that!
Can't win them all. Tough loss, but it's not a big deal. Clips needed Duren in foul trouble, James Harden getting 50 with 20 free throws to beat us by 8.
The foul disparity is even more apparent with the land with no lakes. The elder citizens LAJames has to retain rest pit's we all know. Fact!
Despite last night's loss, the AuStarter Pistons still boast the profile of a fringe contender: fifth in NETRTG, eighth in ORTG, third in DRTG since January 4.
We allowed 50pts to the corpse of James Harden…
We got back to back MIL games to end the season… If things stay this close, I have a feeling those two games could get hot.
Can’t wait when Cade gets calls like other star players. He gets hit too much, without foul calls.
Are we ready for unethical Cade?
For the first time I saw Cade being selfish as he refused to pass the ball electing to try to out score another ball hog. Ausar was assaulted in order to get him off Harden , vicious picks took the zip out of Ausar and Bernie gave no pushback. Never saw Ausar being pushed around like this as he was sometimes double picked aggressively in order to get Harden free. You pick us hard we pick your guys hard. Teams are watching this , this isn’t football.
Duren got a little overconfident in his play making in this one. He should be making the simple, smart passes not behind the back stuff.
Too much whining about the refs.
Schroeder’s been fine. He is what we needed, a back up PG. this is who he is, he’ll look great a few games, terrible a few, and be just solid for most. Fine for a backup PG.
Ausar should have been guarding Harden more and also Holland. Beasley and Hardaway cannot handle Harden and nobody else of their stature in the league can either when old man Harden has got it going.
Probably a noob question.. but how do the playoff tickets sales work? Is there any chance for a non season holder to get tickets? (I live in NZ and want to try and score a ticket, wont bother flying over unless i can get it). After having watched every game in that losing streak, and supporting the boys since 02/03.. It would be a bucket list thing for me. Any help/guidance would be really appreciated from the community! Thank you!
It was funny how George Blaha and Special K didn't get that Harden was showing us up after his dunk, pretending he had a noise bleed. They were like the ball hit him in the face.
Tobias was missed.
Harden shot more FTs than the entire Pistons roster.
Tough to win without your #2 guy when the refs are actively sodomizing you
Mailk and THJ weren't getting their 3s. Tobais is out. Cade and Schroder play great.
The fact that they stayed in this game blows my mind tbh. Felt like they were losing by 20. Definitely were the worse team tn tho
Maybe they were jet lagged? Idk those fourth quarter turnovers were killing me
One game at a time.
The pistons will see this in the playoffs so they're goin to have to learn how to win the games were they are not able to get out and run. That being said it took harden to play superhuman for a team to beat the pistons .
If Cade truly wants to enter those top 10 conversations he needs to improve on his ball handling and 3 point shot, and also stop with the nonchalant act be more aggressive
I expect the Portland game to be a dogfight, they been playing well as of late. That being said i expect a 2-2 road trip. For all the praise JB gets as a coach he didn't do a good job adjusting to harden by not doubling and putting ausar on him more
Pacers and bucks with 2 head to heads here and the Bucks have a tough set of games. We could move up to the 5 seed here pretty quick
Beasley was playing like he was distracted by his wife announcing that she’s divorcing him on social media
Asar Thompson missed every lob all those easy routine points we could've had I feel like that was a big part of the loss