Limited to 12 games this season, Cade Cunningham couldn’t show much in his second campaign, leaving the Pistons to recoup the league’s worst record, with 17 wins to 65 losses.
In any case, it’s a fourth consecutive season in the depths of the league, and even if the team has picked up a lot of young talented players over the years, it will still have a very high draft choice ( 14% chance of picking first, a guaranteed place in the Top 5), the expected progression was not there.
Dwane Casey will thus leave the bench for the offices, in order to leave “a new voice” attempt to bring this extremely young group to a new level. As for Cade Cunningham, whose season has been weighed down by a shin injury, he already knows what he will have to work on: his shot…
At Oklahoma State, Cade Cunningham had a very good 40% success rate from a distance (62/155) but the NBA 3-point line being further from the circle (7m23 against 6m75 in the NCAA), the point guard / guard has “flattened” his shoot when he arrived in the Great League, which made him lose address (31% over his first two seasons).
Indeed, a flatter shot is a shot with a lower margin of error.
“My shot went flat when I found the 3-point line” he explains at the Detroit Free-Press. “Now I feel more comfortable behind the line. Having all that free time has also helped me. I was able to rebuild everything from scratch. During the season, we don’t really have time to think too much. With all this time, I tried to make the most of it and get back on track with my shooting. »
Cade Cunningham explains, however, that his shot was not “broken” and that he did not have to start from scratch. He just needs to round off the trajectory of his shot. Which he will be able to start doing since he was recently given the green light to run again and take jumpshots.
Is that the next few months will be important, for him and Detroit.
“The coming summer is important”he concludes. “Next year we have to take the next step. »
| Cade Cunningham | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2021-22 | TED | 64 | 33 | 41.6 | 31.4 | 84.5 | 0.9 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 17.4 |
| 2022-23 | TED | 12 | 33 | 41.5 | 27.9 | 83.7 | 1.0 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 19.9 |
| Total | 76 | 33 | 41.6 | 30.9 | 84.4 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 17.8 | |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = Minutes; Shots = Shots made / Shots attempted; 3pts = 3-points / 3-points attempted; LF = free throws made / free throws attempted; Off = offensive rebound; Def= defensive rebound; Tot = Total bounces; Pd = assists; Fte: Personal fouls; Int = Intercepts; Bp = Lost bullets; Ct: Counters; Points = Points.
