3 preseason problems that should concern the Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons: Is this team’s 3-point shooting any better?

After going a pathetic 14-49 (28.6 percent) from 3-point range against New Orleans, the Pistons are now below 30 percent as a team in their two preseason games.

Again, you don’t expect teams to be in midseason form in the preseason, but this has been ugly. My question (and this goes back to last season) is why the Pistons are shooting so many of them?

They took more than half of their shots from 3-point range in New Orleans, and just kept chucking them even when they weren’t making them. At some point, don’t you have to change this strategy? Dwane Casey continues to run offensive schemes for the team he wishes he had (one that can shoot) instead of the one he has.

The Pistons and Pelicans took the exact same number of shots in the last game, but the only difference was that only 24 of New Orleans’ shots were 3-pointers, while the Detroit chucked nearly 50 from long range.

This will hopefully improve somewhat when Alec Burks returns, and there will be nights when the Pistons are lights out (happens to every team occasionally) but one guy is hardly going to make that big a difference, so if the strategy is going to be to shoot 57 percent of their shots from 3-point range, this is going to be a long season in Detroit unless there is major improvement.