BREAKOUT: Detroit Pistons’ Isaiah Stewart DOMINATES Bulls—How He Stole the Show With a Career-High!
Detroit Pistons silence the Chicago Bulls with Isaiah Stewart’s career-high 31 points, sparking questions about a surging supporting cast and a suddenly deep rotation. With Cade Cunningham out, Ku Khahil spotlights Stewart’s dominance in the paint, Dennis Jenkins’ 15-assist showcase, and the newfound impact of role players like Javonte Green and Chaz Lanier. Has Detroit quietly built one of the NBA’s most versatile benches?
Ku Khahil unpacks how the Pistons’ gritty defense and evolving offensive schemes powered a convincing win despite major injuries. The episode examines rotation shakeups, the battle for minutes among emerging contributors, and looming trade deadline questions—will veterans like Caris LeVert and Tobias Harris see their roles shift? Get sharp analysis on Detroit’s path forward, how JB Bickerstaff is managing his “good problem” of too much talent, and what it all means for the Pistons’ playoff push.
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41 Comments
I believe players need roles and routines, but I think that’s one of the beautiful aspects of this pistons squad. It doesn’t matter which five players we throw in there, teams cannot prepare for the different number of combinations we can throw at them.. our outside shooting needs to get more consistent but otherwise it’s truly terrifying what they can do on the floor night in and night out.
And considering Cade is the only All-Star on this team at the moment and he’s carried us to the second best record in the league how is that not consideration for MVP. Shai and Joker have what is considered a stronger supporting cast.
😮We need to continue our real development of players and support the improvement we see!
I really couldn't believe stew didn't have a better offensive game I'm from Seattle Washington Huskies that's my team stew and Jaden Daniels were both one and dones there on a team that played pretty bad considering the talent but STEW was the man 17points 9rebounds doesn't surprise me he can score it surprised me when he didn't score
This game highlights what he has been doing all year. I love when he is in the lineup for what he offers offensively. Not only can he hit a three, he is not a ballstopper. When he gets the ball he makes quick decisive plays – shoot, pass. Doesn't start dribbling, looking around or crab dribbling into position like Harris does.
I cannot believe how good Green has been! At first I was upset like why is this dude playing over Ivey Ausar Ron, dude Gevonta is legit! Woooo has won me over!
Ps bro not all JI fans are negative! I’m as big a JI guy as there is but he didn’t play well ln, don’t know why they keep trying to make him a pg, he not one! I want to see JI succeed so just know we’re not all crazy negative or ignore what we see! Like you say it’s ok to criticize a player, JI needs to be better and I hope it happens!
Love to see you give stew the credit he deserves . I stopped watching your videos fora while because you used to hate on stew in the past lol
Does anyone yet know where the nickname “Woo” came from? I’m very interested to know 😊
I need to go back and watch some past Javonte Green clips from his former teams
Ku, I appreciate the listen and your energy.
Where are the weird, always mad Pistons fans who wanted Stew traded three years ago? I told y'all that Stew wasn't just a crash out.
Me and my son left at half time I knew we was gonna smack them lames nobody can fw us we got too many hittas
That’s part of the reason they’re wearing other teams down! (The deep rotation)
I think we need to let Ivey stay in the g league until he’s 100% healthy
Stew is the best defensive big in the league. His tracking of blocks is art.
We played an 11 man rotation. You add in the 3 starters out this game, that is a 14 man rotation. Nobody expected this coach to go past 9 in his rotation. But, as this coach has noted, the depth on this team is amazing; keeping the rotation down to 9 ain't so easy.
😂mind u tho Ivey barely played on ball this game in 19 mins most of it was off ball coming to the ball every now and again he brought it up but that’s so not the story of this game at all. It wasn’t his best game… coo first start back against the Chicago bulls without ur full team and new guys u barely ever played with like relax
My Guy Ivey⭐️ Can Handle The Point If Needed He’s Just Getting His Legs Back & He’s Looking Good🔥 Good Game Pistons⭐️🏀💪🏽💯
Ku, not that I completely disagree with you on Ivey but it is funny to hear you spend a whole segment on how good Stew is and how great it has been to watch his long term improvement especially of things he was bad at and the turn around a just flat out say Ivey can’t handle the ball.
Bumbaclooootttt 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
The ticker at the bottom saying "Will Cade Cunnginham become a top 10 player this year?" WTF? He already is in the top 10! Probably top 5
Ivey just isn't what many Pistons fans think he is. His value is low, a small guard that can't run an offense, below average defender. It's probably best he gets a change of scenery. The fact that Ku in his previous video was talking about how we was excelling in a role as like the 3rd or 4th guy off the bench speaks volumes. Not what many envisioned Ivey as a role player but that's essentially what he has become. Being a star guard or robin to Cade is unlikely in Ivey's future as a Piston.
I’ll admit that I was too quick to write Chaz off after a less than stellar Summer League.
Thank you for addressing the Daniss 2-way contract situation. I've been asking all my local media people to talk about it.
Daniss reminds me of Will Bynum. Bynumite had a 20 assist game, a 32 point game and a 25 point 10 assist game. Along with a number of other quality games.
You know Ku is young… Taking about Hakeem 😂
Ivey is still recovering from that leg injury. I needs low time management until he’s fully recovered.
Good stuff Ku.
I'm surprised you thought Levert had a bad game though. Outside that one TO, he put up 5 points on 2-4 shooting, 3 assists (two being self-created drives that he dumped off for layups/dunks), 2 boards and solid/good defense with 2 blocks in only 12 minutes.
Great game. Love the transition to the Ivey hate when talking about Stu.😂 Either way go pistons!
Stew is quietly among the top 1% in best value contracts in the league too. This team isn’t half the aura it has without him 💪🏻
I love the chip on the shoulders these guys carry when cades out too. You can tell they collectively feel like they want to prove how good they are and don’t need Cade to whoop a teams 🍑
I’m convinced we could play hooper and the Pistons extreme team and we’d still win at this point. We got some magic in the building right now
I was very confused we played Chaz over Sasser when it seemed like Sass was exactly what we needed
challenge: try to be more objective about Caris LeVert. my guy played great defense in 10 minutes. scored. was disruptive. moved the ball. got assists
Ku you have a point about the rotation. It is awesome to have a ultra deep team, hell we are just as deep as OKC, maybe deeper. But it doesn't matter because there are only 48 minutes in a game. In the words of Norman Powell: Addition by subtraction. I don't know who, but of our three problems (3pt shooting and fouling) our biggest one is that we have too many players that we want to give minutes. We gotta move on some guys. I'm glad I don't have to make that decision. We can move off some guys and still have an argument for a 10 man rotation.
As soon as the Pistons got rid of Killian we started to get better 🤔
Pistons have 6 straight home games how many can they WIN
He really has evolved into something special.
Unfortunately, Stew is staying on the bench instead aside Duren where he belongs.
I seen something special in Daniss since watching him in Summer League. He has always impressed me and im glad to see it carry over to the pro level
Its not said enough, but Beef Stew IS essentially Ben Wallace with a better offensive game. He blocks bigger guys and is the UNQUESTIONABLE anchor of the defense. He is just as much a high level player as Cade and Duran and he was the missing key difference between us not advancing past NY in the playoffs last year…
I was a self admitted hater of Stew two seasons ago. He's shown to be a smarter player this season without losing his physicality and aggressiveness. Complete 180 for my opinion on him.