The more I think about it, the more I think that Reggie Jackson should definitely not ask to be bought out of his Pistons contract in order to pursue opportunities with a playoff team. He’s got it all right now. He’s in the perfect position for a veteran point guard looking for another payday. The…
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John Henson 12 Points Pistons Debut Full Highlights (2/8/2020)
In his first game with the Detroit Pistons, playing just eighteen minutes, John Henson outdid anything that he did while he was in Cleveland by making six out of six shots and scoring twelve points. His previous season high was ten points. Is Cleveland that much worse than Detroit where players who go from one…
Read MoreReggie Jackson 28 Points Full Highlights (2/7/2020)
There has been speculation that Reggie Jackson is exploring the option of asking the Pistons to buy out his contract so that he can go somewhere where the games will actually matter. The Pistons are clearly tanking after giving up Drummond for a poopoo platter of John Henson (poo), Brandon Knight (poo), and a second-round…
Read MoreChristian Wood 27 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (2/7/2020)
Just four days ago, I wrote words that were almost frighteningly prophetic: “If Andre Drummond does get traded and no starting-caliber centers are received in return, then the date of that trade will mark the true beginning of the Christian Wood era in Detroit. The eras will be marked by the denotations B.C. (“Before Christ(ian)”)…
Read MoreThon Maker 19 Points Full Highlights (2/7/2020)
I have not been kind to Thon Maker over the years. Even when he was terrorizing DeMar DeRozan in the playoffs, I always judged him to be a skinny, easily-pushed-around big man with stone hands and the unearned backing of Kevin Garnett. And I still judge him that way. But it’s good to see him…
Read MoreChristian Wood 21 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
This game and the one before it were the first games of the season where Christan Wood got over thirty minutes of on-court action. His stats weren’t as utterly outrageous as I would have hoped for (17/5/1 last game, 21/8/1 this game), but it does bolster my newly-formed hypothesis that if you emphasized Wood in…
Read MoreReggie Jackson 25 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
This game brought me vivid flashbacks to the few months immediately following Reggie Jackson’s trade to the Pistons from the Thunder. In those glorious months, Reggie Jackson’s chemistry with Andre Drummond was off the charts, and he averaged, like, almost ten APG per game. When I think about those fun times on a sad-sack directionless…
Read MoreChristian Wood 17 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (2/3/2020)
Andre Drummond has been implicated in trade rumors for a while now. The frenzied whispering between GM’s has heightened in volume to be more of like a loud conversation: “Hey we want Andre Drummond! Take our [garbage player] and our [large asset bundle] and you won’t have to worry about dealing with him in free…
Read MoreReggie Jackson 20 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/2/2020)
We’ve entered a weird timeline where the Pistons commentators are fondly recalling the days of “vintage” Reggie Jackson, when he would put up statlines like 20/6 all the time. Apparently, those days when vintage Reggie Jackson was putting up vintage Reggie Jackson performances are worth pining over? Yeah, all those 8th/9th/10th seed finishes and first-round…
Read MoreSekou Doumbouya 17 Points Full Highlights (2/2/2020)
Sekou “The Fires of Mount Doum” Doumbouya had a spurt of good games at the beginning of this month, but for the past two weeks or so, his scoring has dropped off a cliff. There was even the threat from his coach of being sent back down to the G-League, which is basically the NBA…
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