Detroit Pistons: What Jerami Grant has to do to be an All-Star next season

Detroit Pistons: Jerami Grant’s passing

Jerami Grant’s passing did improve quite a lot this season, as it was his first being the primary playmaker for his team.

His assist rate of 14 percent was pretty good for a forward and probably would have been much higher had he had more teammates who could actually shoot the ball.

He did average a career-high 2.8 assists but when you look at his  27.8 percent usage rate, those assist numbers don’t look too impressive. Randle had a slightly higher usage rage and racked up six assists per game, so Grant has to get better.

Grant had the ball in his hands a lot and did a good job of getting into the lane for his own shot or to draw fouls, but he didn’t do a great job passing out of double teams or kicking out to open shooters.

Like I said, they missed a lot of the shots when he did kick out, so this isn’t all on Jerami Grant, but he definitely needs to work on getting rid of the ball faster, making quicker decisions and finding his teammates for those open looks.

Hopefully the Pistons will find some shooters this offseason who can help turn more of those passes into assists, but Grant also needs to get better at passing out of traffic after he collapses the defense with dribble penetration.