J. Kyle Mann

I'm putting Dennis Jenkins in to play with Cade.

Like, the offense-defense choices and the turnover rate are pretty stark differences.

like reminders that this team is still pretty early in its stages, but I still think they can make the finals.

And if you make the finals and you're this fucking tough and physical, you got a shot.

they're not afraid.

And the turnovers is an interesting one because if you remember, their turnover rate in the playoffs against the Knicks last year was very bad.

And you remember that game one, they could have won in Madison Square Garden and they coughed up just ghastly turnover after.

I think they had 21 turnovers in that game and like they had a stretch of like seven and two minutes that kind of cost them the game.

There's going to be moments where it gets a little hot and a little pressurized and it's going to test their ability to take care of the ball.

And the other thing I'm just endlessly curious about

Our team's going to dare Cade to shoot threes on the pick and roll.

And he's shooting 33% on threes, shooting actually better on pull-up threes than catch and shoot threes this year, which is weird.

And it was the opposite last year.

The Knicks did this a little bit in the first round last year, and he didn't really want to shoot threes.

I just wonder if that's a card that some team is going to play and be like, go ahead.

We're not going to let you get into the lane.

Now he's he and the Pistons collectively are big enough and strong enough to make mincemeat out of that strategy on some possessions.

But I just think it's a card we're going to see going to the rest of the East.

Oh, by the way, a Thunder Pistons, February 25th.

That's an eight days.