3 takeaways from the Detroit Pistons 132-98 win over the San Antonio Spurs

A rather confusing project

A topic of much discussion this season for Pistons fans has been the development of Bruce Brown‘s offensive game. A season ago he was averaging just 4.3 points per game, and those would only come off of an occasional back door cut to the basket or pass in transition. Brown never established himself as anything but a defender.

Which is okay, Detroit needs solid on-ball defenders, and that’s what he was. But this season, with his transition to point guard, we’ve begun to see a more aggressive and more efficient iteration of Brown on the offensive end that we never saw last season.

This year he’s averaging 7.5 points per game, so a slight increase in a year’s difference. His ability to control his body while finishing at the rim has improved drastically. He’s not a player that Detroit can necessarily rely on (yet) to get a basket, but the elevated element of his offensive abilities are being noticed.

So – what is he? With this new development that he can get to the basket and can even knock down the occasional three-point shot, where will he be utilized in the future? What is his ceiling? If we had to compare him to a current NBA player, who would that even be?

His transition into his new role hasn’t been entirely seamless, but it’s been productive. With consistency more regularly from Brown, he could easily becoming a building block of the future for the Pistons.