Detroit Pistons – Page 3

Dennis Smith Jr. Triple Double 10 Pts/12 Rebs/11 Asts Full Highlights (3/3/2021)

https://youtu.be/OIz2s40bjL0 The Dennis Smith Jr. redemption tour continues! There’s a reason that Mavericks fans were really hyped for this dude as a potential franchise cornerstone, and it wasn’t just because they were displaying the overvaluation of their team’s own prospects typical of NBA fandom! Actually, that was a major part of it, probably the major-est…

Dennis Smith Jr. 17 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/26/2021)

https://youtu.be/f4xwaqebyuI The “Dennis Smith Jr. Will Be An All-Star” ship has sailed, right? That ship sailed right out into the open seas with nobody on it except the corpse of a dude named “Captain Stumpy” and a bunch of ship cats. Nobody is holding out hope that DSJ will morph into a star-level player. Right…

Saben Lee 21 Points Full Highlights (2/23/2021)

https://youtu.be/YXN_42t94ZU Saben Lee. Just say the name out loud. That’s a name that’s infused with primal athletic force. It’s like the phrase that God uttered to breathe the game of basketball into existence as clouds of formless stellar dust swirled around him. It’s like Gaben of Valve and Half Life fame was combined with Saber,…

Mason Plumlee Triple Double 17 Pts/10 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (2/14/2021)

https://youtu.be/wEAhZp9HYj8 OFFICIAL DTB CONFESSION: I was maybe a little bit wrong in my initial assessment of the contracts that the Pistons handed out in the off-season to Mason Plumlee and Jerami Grant. Not entirely wrong, but a little bit wrong. Plumlee is getting eight million dollars this year and the next two years. That seems…

Saddiq Bey Career High 30 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (2/12/2021)

https://youtu.be/wePDBiF2PlM Opening his eyes from sleep to find a completely unexpected scene in front of him, Saddiq Bey’s first inclination was to close his eyes again. Perhaps when he opened them for a second time, he would be back in his bed like he expected, and he could pass off the brief glimpse into that…

Isaiah Stewart 17 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2021)

https://youtu.be/nY5B6nWO1aI Jerami Grant, and Blake Griffin before him, were exciting acquisitions that provided the Pistons with a 20 PPG scorer who could (theoretically) drag the team out of the doldrums and return them to playoff relevancy. But the problem with those guys is that in no way could say that they were “bringing back old…

Delon Wright Career High 28 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (1/26/2021)

https://youtu.be/RKIxUfElQhA It seems like forever ago that Delon Wright formed part of the Raptors’ feared “bench mob” with…who were the other players who comprised that mob, again? It was, like, Fred VanVleet, and Norman Powell, and maybe Andrea Bargnani or something. Yeah. I bet Andrea Bargnani was involved. That would be preferable to having somebody…

Wayne Ellington 24 Points Full Highlights (1/18/2021)

https://youtu.be/wkB5mqUmRSU OFFICIAL DTB REMINDER: Wayne “Beef W” Ellington holds the record for most three-pointers in a season off the bench, having made 227 such shots for the Miami Heat in the 2017-18 season. And he’s been riding that accomplishment to contracts ever since. Knicks fans thought they were getting that version of Ellington when he…

Josh Jackson 27 Points Full Highlights (12/28/2020)

https://youtu.be/hk3cNnwZh7M I need somebody to tell me right now, RIGHT NOW, why Josh Jackson shouldn’t be considered the second coming of Andrew Wiggins but better. And they need to tell me without using any of the words “overreacting”, “tanking”, “giving weed to toddlers”, or “small sample size”. Those are disallowed words. The utterance of such…

Jerami Grant 28 Points Full Highlights (12/26/2020)

https://youtu.be/hbzsmC-lPcM The accelerated free agency period that started in late November was more heart-pounding than usual due to the rapid pace at which contracts were signed and at which trades were made. Teams only had a few weeks to finalize their rosters, as opposed to a normal year, where teams have a period of several…