Trey Kirby

Your role player is supposed to play better every single one.

The biggest shock, I think, is Jalen Duren specifically.

No, he gave him a few minutes in the fourth quarter because he was playing the way everybody imagines Detroit basketball to be played.

Hard.

He was playing ridiculously hard.

He has been really good off the bench those eight blocks.

That being said, he's not going to score a lot of points.

And so, yeah, the collapse around Cade, especially there was that Asar Thompson attempt at a bucket with a couple minutes left.

After Cade was stopped, Asar Thompson got the ball and he went directly to the same side where Cade was.

Didn't make any sense.

And there's so many bodies there.

Tobias was open in the other quarter, so I'm not sure why Asar tried that.

But

None of the answers are coming from the bench.

They did know that they needed a scorer at the trade deadline, so they tried the Jay Naive trade for Kevin Herter.

He didn't play a ton.

He didn't get into the flow here.

That didn't happen.

Get a better package together for Io DeSumo.

Sure.