Isaiah Stewart has his flaws, but blaming him for the Detroit Pistons’ inability to secure defensive rebounds and limit second-chance points is wrong. Stewart and the Pistons need his teammates to help him out and do their part.
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It was definitely on everyone else to rebound the ball behind Stewart. It didn't help they were playing Zone defense either. They were having problems finding their box out.
Bojan is awesome on the offensive end but he is not the big athletic PF Stew needs next to him. He is the only guy really fighting for rebounds. Saddiq is potentially above average on the offensive end but he isn't a very good defender and plays small when it comes to defense.
Steve Nash already fired, how about Dwane Casey??? Wake up Troy Weaver, your coaching staff is absolutely terrible!
Bro not only have I been saying this every single game but I said this the very moment we traded for Bojan. We will be a bottom 5 defense with Bojan starting at PF and Stewart at C. Bojan MUST come off the bench at SF and be our 6th man. It solves multiple issues such as allowing us to play a real big with Stewart (Bagley, Duren, even Noel), bolstering our bench scoring, and allowing Bey to get those opportunities that Bojan is taking from him. People are just butt hurt and only care about coddling Bojan, the shiny new toy no matter how much it hurts the team. I love Bojan but he is crippling our defense and rebounding every single game. They got completely embarrassed on the glass and in the paint yet again tonight. Look at all of the teams we have played so far. Almost all of them play 2 bigs. Capela/Collins, Lopez/Giannis, Mitchell/Randle, Jackson/Smith, Carter/Banchero. Enough with the midget ball "positionless basketball" LARP. The only difference in todays game is the wings are better playmakers and bigs are better shooters. THATS IT. Positions matter. Start Stewart at PF the next game and put Duren at C or Noel at C if Duren is still hurt and see how it goes. This is BY FAR our biggest problem and Casey hasn't tried to address it one single bit. We have seen 2 bigs on the floor for a total of about 5 minutes all season. This is the OBVIOUS result. What a joke.
Oh and I just want to give Stewart some love. He has had an awesome season and his 3pt shot will come along. He has great form and just needs to keep shooting. He has hit 2 3s in 3 of the last 4 games. I feel bad for him because he has to play with midgets. Every time Stewart gets switched out on the perimeter or goes for a block, like you said, it is almost a guaranteed offensive rebound for the other team because there is no one else in the paint to actually rebound or contest shots.
I thought this was Ivey's weakest game. He really didn't contribute much at all.
I think the Bucks took the Pistons lightly in the first game and took them seriously in this one. Their defense was much tighter and tailored to stopping Cade and Bojan. Without Cade and Bojan scoring a lot there is no way the Pistons can stay in games.
We’re exposed defensively without Jeremi Grant he made up for so many defensive mistakes…Bojan is great offensively but he’s nothing on defense so as great as he’s shooting it doesn’t effect the W/L column…Bey is lost on defense, Bey/Bojan cannot play together, Bey is playing very timid similar to how he played when Grant was on the court with him…I know Bojan can score but we don’t need him trying to handle the ball and get downhill he’s not Gianni’s Siakam KD or BI…When Duren gets healthy someone is going to the bench until we draft a solid lengthy PF I wished we signed Jalen Smith in the offseason instead of Bagley because he can play defense stretch the floor and switch onto perimeter but we will definitely be back in the draft to address PF position.
This game was more on the players then coaches or anything else I didn’t expect a win but the effort/ IQ could have been better.
Beef stew I'm telling ya
Cade, struggling or not, should never take less than 18 shots.
The Pistons have the worst overall talent in this league I keep telling you guys you don't believe it Troy Weaver sucks he doesn't bring in good talent he's finding all outdated players with no athletic ability no two-way players Shooters can't play D defensive players can't shoot your small Shane Ivy is just out of control place like a high school kid falling all the time rookie or No rookie stand up and play Like a Man
Screening 101 / DHO ALWAYS RUB SHOULDERS the tighter the better Cade and Ivey have to come hard/tighter and commit to rubbing shoulders with STEW thus running there defender into the screen they can’t be lackadaisical…Stew has to realize he cant pump fake a screen he needs to be solid and intentional…I think Stew is overthinking it and scared to get in foul trouble…they need to watch Steph and Draymond Curry always Runs extremely hard to his DHO and Draymond is Solid.
it got to the point where ku had to demonstrate dribble hand-offs live on air 🎥 lmao
Group rebounding does not work. Beys job is to score and help rebound not be a rebounder. What about the games where Bey out rebounds Stewart? Stewart only does a couple things well for him to holler at Bey is nutz. Bey has to score rebound defend pass dribble drive be efficient all in 32 minutes….yeah ok out of the 8 games he's scored 20+ in half we need a couple rebounders we have none. Even when Bags returns he doesn't rebound either. Maybe just vacate rebounding like Beilien did at Michigan, cuz this is not working.
Stew is not a true center. He should be at the 4. Bagley or Duren need to at the 5. Let Bey come off the beach with Killian. Ku you jinxed Cade with that Kobe nonsense.
We need to start Jalen duren
2nd chance pts killed us. Our front court is too small. Dwight Howard and Hassan Whiteside is available. We need help bad. Why is Kevin Knox on this team??? Bey needs to come off the bench. They need to go bigger if we're going to have a chance. I'd cut Braxton Key, Rodney Mcgruder,and bring in Rondo or make Kemba play, and sign a 7 footer.