Who says resumption of the NBA season says need for motivation. And who says need for motivation says…? Find good reasons! For each team of the 2022-23 season, we wanted to be useful, helpful, and a little funny if the subject allows it. Here are the 10 good reasons to follow the Detroit Pistons over the next few months, between youth and… youth.
#1: To take the temperature of a group… very young
It was beaten and beaten once more in the preview, it is absolutely not known how many victories the Pistons will finish in the 2022-23 edition. The projected major five does not exceed 23 years (average of 22.17 years) and our best experts are unable to come up with a prediction without changing their minds in a second. Everything can happen : of the season which fell very early in the lianas of the tanking, in the snatch on the edge of the top 10 – and so of the play in – the very high ceiling of the Pistons gives free rein to our imagination. And if it’s not this season, it will be the next, but we will have had the opportunity to take the temperature and set the cursor on a level. It’s all blurry there.
#2: Witness the hatching of the next Magic Johnson, aka Cade Cunningham
And if we wanted to get carried away, we would add that Cade Cunningham has a much more reliable outside shot. For the rest, the comparison is enough legit so much the 1st choice of the Draft 2021 has already accomplished. He has yet to win a single trophy, admittedly, but his prowess over the month of March – 22.9 points at 48% shooting, 5.9 rebounds, 7 assists and 1.4 steals – already make him one of the ten best players of the moment in the NBA. Still early to scratch one of the first five places, but already good clues as to the legacy he will leave in Michigan, at the end of a very well launched career. Hall of Famers? Again, it is a bit early to put Cade Cunningham in this category, but we would not bet three kopecks on the opposite scenario. The path is open to him, and the projection of a career of well-referenced players like Kyle Lowry or Russell Westbrook, already in his retro. Yeah, the hype is driving us crazy.
What a troll this paragraph, gently.
#3: Because Killian will pay him back
Great stolen videos of Killian Hayes getting “destroyed” by Trae Young (from 1:20 to 1:45) while we were there and that wasn’t how it happened at all. Killian won 46-3 and the only shot caught was Trae Young’s step-back. Nothing worse than image traders.
#4: It takes less time to follow than another team
That’s often what happens with the Pistons: you watch the first 10 or 15 games of the season, then – unless you’re a fan of the franchise – the hype runs out of steam. The team is still terrible, eh, it’s just that it would take the public, a somewhat flashy city, collective results and a Killian Hayes above 10 points on average for the spectators to be more ” lambdas” get caught up in the game.
#5 : La paire de rookies, Jaden Ivey – Jalen Duren
On paper, the “JaJa” is an association that smells of kryptonite, soft drinks and the tearing of circles at all costs. On the floor, the “JaJa” is apparently an association that smells of kryptonite, soft drinks and the tearing of circles at all costs. One is the 5th choice of the last draft, the other was selected “only in” 13e position. One is rear, the other is pivot. Both scream a lot and push their opponents following a big dunkou. All these small parameters mean that in addition to Cade Cunningham and the furniture already in place, the city of Detroit gains one – therefore two – new attractions: the “YaYa”.
#6 : There are fourteen letters in “Detroit Pistons”, as many as in “cryptogamics”
And what does it mean « cryptogamiques » ? A fungal disease is a disease caused to a plant by a fungus or other parasitic filamentous organism. There, the term cryptogamic is in the plural, so there are several diseases caused to plants. Should we see a sign there? Will Detroit’s young shoots get sick? Will the first symptom be a 27% in team shooting in the first 30 games of the season? We get lost, but it’s super hot to list ten reasons.
#7: Because there might still be a Victor at the end
It’s an open secret, many are a bit crap staff who won’t even try to start their season. What’s the point of sweating when you can save that sweat for next season, and make it flow alongside Victor Wembanyama, aka the biggest prospect since…since when? Many scouts mention him as talent “generational”others call it outright “the chosen one”. For the last it is a bit false, but you have understood the importance of his arrival in the NBA. The Pistons might thus abandon their quest for play-injust to line up with the tanking heavyweights that will probably be the Spurs, Pacers, Rockets and other teams determined to dominate the second half of the decade.
#8: Because Vincent Collet is not the coach
It shoots the ambulance, well done.
#9: Because it’s the last season before the franchise goes bankrupt
We call Detroit the “engine town”, and given the price of gas right now, not sure they’ll have enough next summer to refuel. It’s not us who say it, it’s the display of the station of Bouzelon-les-Cagroux 15 minutes south of Roanne.
#10: Celebrate 4 years of Reggie Bullock’s buzzer once morest Toronto
The day before, we mentioned the possibility for the Spurs to celebrate the buzzer of Ray Allen, a frankly unwelcome joke. Enough banter: next November 14, the Pistons will actually have the opportunity to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Reggie Bullock’s buzzer once morest Toronto. A shot that makes history in the history of the NBA as this evening marked much more than the fans of Detroit themselves.
