AV

Sports Analytics @ Senior Sports Research Director
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[AV @analyticball]

the Ron, Ausar, Bball Paul lineups are going to be chaos.

[Ausars Attorney 💼 @ausarsattorney]

Aye man..
120 ortg w/ Cade while the lineup shoots 27% from 3 is hilarious.
Straight terrors on defense and in transition.

[Steven Patton @PattonAnalytics]

No QB lost more EPA per dropback to drops than Jayden Daniels last year at +0.178.

He also led the league with an 8% drop rate.

[AV @analyticball]

"out with the bad.... in with the good"

- trajan

[Ku 🦉 @KuKhahil]

“Moderate downgrade”

[AV @analyticball]

@KuKhahil ausar with improved finishing and touch, is an all star

[AV @analyticball]

@KuKhahil team a was an injury away from losing in 5 to 8 seed

[Ku 🦉 @KuKhahil]

*#2 defense in the NBA that won 60 games, but bottom of league in 3PA’s and middle of pack 3pt % and solely reliant on Duncan Robinson to generate threes*

*same team then adds the #2 points over expected spot-up shooter in the NBA to the #1 points over expected spot-up shooter in the NBA*

*same team then adds a new starting 4 that takes similar volume as their previous starting 4, except this one shoots 40% from three and can hit corners 3’s and ATB 3’s*

“Yeah actually they’ll be lucky to make the playoffs”

[AV @analyticball]

Then JB bickerstaff doesn't make a difference and in fact his offensive scheme is what's failed him before and it's doing it again

[Ku 🦉 @KuKhahil]

The 2024-25 Detroit Pistons went from a bottom-5 defensive team before January 1st 2025, to a top-5 defense after January 1st 2025 (when Ausar was back from blood clots and inserted into starting lineup).

Then, they had Ausar from the get-go of the 2025-26 season, and only the OKC Thunder had a better defense than them.

And EYE am supposed to believe the team that still employs him and Cade Cunningham are going to fall from 60 wins-1st seed to 44ish wins-8th seed?

Did one of those guys get traded or retire and I missed it or something?

[AV @analyticball]

@KuKhahil John Collins has been a ~ 20 PPG scorer 3 times

[AV @analyticball]

@KuKhahil cades bringing AT down

[AV @analyticball]

ive been shouting this for years!

[Nick Underhill @nick_underhill]

We found a free play that the Bears are manufacturing to create and succeed on shots down the field. Why isn't the rest of the league taking advantage? New show with @RyanPaganetti

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[AV @analyticball]

they were an franz injury away from getting beat by the 8 seed in 5 games................

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if you call that success....

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go on vacation..

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[Ku 🦉 @KuKhahil]

Just saw someone call the Pistons season last year a failure.

I just might need to take a vacation until the season starts lol

[Omari Sankofa II @omarisankofa]

I was a smooth jazz fan at the age of 11 thanks to V98.7

[AV @analyticball]

Ausar improving his touch and finishing is all needed.

Just be Amen, and he's the 2nd scorer ballhandler they need.

It's weird he hasn't gotten better

[Ku 🦉 @KuKhahil]

Trajan said the Pistons don’t need to become an offensive team, instead he said they needed “enough” offense to go with their elite defense.

Do you think they’ve hit “enough” or are they still not there?

If you don’t believe they have “enough” yet, what do you think they need?

[AV @analyticball]

Agreed, would have pushed knicks deep

[Ku 🦉 @KuKhahil]

If Jalen Duren simply played like 50% of who he was during the regular season, the talk about this Pistons this offseason would be drastically different.

[AV @analyticball]

You're over rating him.

What major things has he done?

[Ku 🦉 @KuKhahil]

Maybe we should stop giving a fuck about the big names, stop caring about what national people think, and stop caring about winning the offseason.

I don’t know how Trajan hasn’t earned the benefit of the doubt that he might know what he’s doing constructing a winning team lol

[AV @analyticball]

Looks like pistons playoff games

[Lazarus Jackson @lazchance]

I meaaaaaannnn are these the shots we want consistently? Idk

[AV @analyticball]

Looooooool

[Omari Sankofa II @omarisankofa]

Okorie: “Basically show what I can do on both ends of the floor. Just playing my game, helping however I can. I’m pretty versatile on the offensive end. Trying to be disruptive on the defensive end. Did a pretty decent job of that today and I’m going to keep building on it.”

[AV @analyticball]

This is why they passed on 2nd ballhandler n creation.

Imagine maxey next to Cade.

Thats where it's headed.

[Keith Black Trudeau @Charlottean28]

Okorie has elite speed but the change of pace and the footwork are really going to separate him in the NBA. Even if you cut him off, he has counters and those are only going to get more and more refined when he hits his 20s.

I thought he showed some really good PG traits, too.

[AV @analyticball]

@KuKhahil If you dig into last year, you'd be shocked at how many games against the top teams they were missing at least one of their top two players. It was like over 50% of the time.

It was weird. Many times we'd play a good team, they'd either be resting or have a guy sitting out