Luke Kennard’s top three games with the Detroit Pistons

Game one against Milwaukee

The 2018-2019 Pistons were decimated by injuries, but still found a way to squeak into the playoffs. In a match up that proved to be unbearably overwhelming, Detroit was taking on the 60-win Milwaukee Bucks.

Grifffin missed the opening two games of the series before the Pistons were ultimately swept, but there were certainly some bright spots that we can look back on.

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The main one, and the obvious one here is that Kennard played particularly well in both game one and two. For all intents an purposes, we’re going to focus on game one considering it was his playoff debut.

He totaled nearly a quarter of Detroit’s total points on the night, scoring 21 of their 86. He did on 57.1 percent shooting which included 80.0 percent from three-point range. The theme here has been that if Luke goes off, he’s incredibly efficient

The Pistons found themselves in a 34-16 deficit before he chalked up his first bucket in the closing seconds of the first quarter.

Luke found himself hitting a ton of difficult mid-range shots, all while contested or when he’s falling away from the basket. He was smart with and without the ball in his hands.

Defenders luckily have the presence of mind to go over screens set for him, but he still made Milwaukee pay for it by knocking down a three early in the second quarter.

At the time there wasn’t too much excitement when face with the reality that Kennard had a particularly good playoff debut considering Detroit got pummeled. In retrospect though, it’s pretty impressive that he came out firing the way that he did.

Finally, we’ll leave you with the most impressive shot he hit that night. Getting Pat Connaughton to bite on the shot fake, putting the ball on the floor an stepping back which slowed the close out, and knocking down the contested look. A thing of beauty.