Detroit has all the time been a soccer city, regardless of how nicely or poorly the Lions play. However the Pistons had been some of the profitable groups within the NBA in two completely different eras. They gained a championship within the late Nineteen Eighties after which once more within the mid-2000s. However exhausting instances have come for the once-proud franchise, they usually as soon as once more discover themselves within the basement of the present NBA standings.
At 2-11, the Detroit Pistons are on the backside of the NBA standings
The Detroit Pistons have now misplaced ten video games in a row.
The final time they misplaced ten video games in a row was in March 2015.
I did not suppose I might be penning this in yr 4 of the ‘Restoration’.
— Jack Kelly (@jack_kelly_313) November 18, 2023
There have been delicate expectations going into the season, or a minimum of some hope for noticeable enchancment. The projected beginning lineup was stacked with earlier first-round picks and led by Cade Cunningham, whom the Pistons chosen with the primary general choose within the 2021 Draft. And whereas the 6-foot-1 Cunningham is averaging 21.1 factors via 13 video games thus far in his profession, he hasn’t seemed just like the elite participant he ought to be.
Whereas he has seen some enchancment on his three-point shot, Cunningham continues to be taking pictures 29.6% from deep. He has proven himself to be extraordinarily careless with the basketball, main the NBA in turnovers with 11 greater than the participant with the subsequent highest complete (Luka Dončić at 53).
Stacked with younger expertise, however unable to place the items collectively
— Detroit Pistons (@DetroitPistons) November 18, 2023
It isn’t simply Cunningham. The Pistons, as a group, flip the ball over greater than anybody else, commit essentially the most errors, and rating the Fifth-fewest factors of any group within the NBA. Their 3-point proportion ranks 18th general.
It isn’t that they do not have expertise. 4 of the 5 starters listed had been chosen within the top-10 of their respective drafts, they usually even have Marvin Bagley and James Wiseman on their roster, each of whom had been former second general picks who did not pan out with their authentic groups.
Except the Pistons pull off a miraculous flip of occasions, this might be one other season that provides to the franchise’s rising futility. They’ve completed within the backside 5 of the Japanese Convention each season since 2009–10 besides two, after they certified for the playoffs because the eighth seed. They did not win a single sport in any of those collection, which means the Pistons have not gained a playoff sport since 2008.