Detroit Pistons: Discouraging loss shows biggest problems
The Detroit Pistons can’t shoot
The Detroit Pistons shot an awful 41.5 percent from the field last night, a full 16 percentage points lower than their opponent. You won’t win games with that kind of disparity unless you are hitting a ton of 3-point shots, which they weren’t.
The Pistons were just 6-of-18 from 3-point range last night while the Trail Blazers were 14-of-31, making almost as many as Detroit attempted. But it’s not the 3-point shooting that has been hurting the Pistons, as they are actually middle of the pack in 3-point percentage and makes per game. It’s everywhere else on the floor that is killing them.
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The Pistons’ 44.9 percent team shooting is 28th in the NBA and their effective field goal percentage (which his buoyed by the hot shooting of Bogdanovic and Burks) is just 51.5 percent, 27th in the NBA.
The Pistons are dead last in 2-point percentage, hitting just 50.7 percent of their 2-point attempts while the best teams are closer to 60 percent.
Some of this is due to the absence of Cade Cunningham, as a lot of guys are playing outside of their comfort zones right now and are being asked to do more than they would do normally, but it’s clear that the Pistons need some shot makers, as they are once again the league’s worst shooting team even after adding Bogdanovic and Burks.