Detroit Pistons vs Memphis Grizzlies - 4/5/2024

Game Breakdown

Pistons - 90 - 108 L

• Sasser, Ivey, Brown Jr. Evbuomwan, Duren

  • First play of the game again for Sasser

  • Some REALLY rough transition defense as Stevens just has dunk after dunk in the 1st quarter

  • Blaha - “Forgettable 1st half for the Pistons in Memphis”......Kelser “can’t get over soon enough”

    • That’s all that needs to be said about this 1st half performance outside of the Ivey made 3Ps

    • 15 FIRST HALF TURNOVERS!

  • Come out of halftime and immediately give up 4 points

    • Grizz score on first 4 possessions and Pippen Jr. is just carving the up

• IVEY 3P shot does look good on some attempts

  • Would be really interesting to track all of his attempts throughout the season and see if there is something that stands out with his makes 

    • Ability to step in off the catch with the space is the one I would guess BUT that’s just a guess

  • Knocks down his first 2 attempts

    • MAKE IT 3!!....NOW 4….UP TO 5 IN THE 1ST HALF and hits his first 3PA of the 2nd half

    • We have seen him go on stretches and have games where he does shoot it really well

  • Not perfect BUT this is a really nice start after his performance last game (continues into the 3rd quarter)

    • Has 20 of the teams 31 points here halfway through the 2nd quarter

  • I like that he is trying to connect on these lobs out of the PnR, just hasn’t been able to 

  • 10:40 3rd Quarter, I LOVE THE PATIENCE, beautiful execution

  • Knocks down a mid range jumper and we have now seen him score from all 3 levels in this one

  • If Flynn was the only positive from last game, Ivey is absolutely the only positive so far from this one

    • Still had a few rough TOs and misses at the rim but overall it was good to see a positive response

• EVBUOMWAN continues to be aggressive attacking closeouts, wish he would finish them off a little better

  • Really nice block in transition where he recovers after initially trying to setup to take a charge

• FLYNN misses first 2 FGAs and has a turnover after the incredible game in his last outing

  • Looks like he might not have the shooting touch tonight

    • And he has got some really, really good looks

  • Has missed his first 9 shots of the game…make it 10, finishes 0-12 from the field

  • Didn’t think the process was bad but just didn’t make shots

• WISEMAN with some nice rim protection here in the 1st half

• NOWELL with a smooth looking shot fake and 1,2 dribble pull up jumper for his first points as a Piston

• DUREN has been a non factor thus far in the 1st half….much of the same to start the 3rd

  • There is a nice finish through contact on the PnR

  • Okay, here is some life from him later in the quarter

• SASSER has also been a complete non factor thus far…..(same as Duren)

Grizzlies

• Pippen Jr., Goodwin, LaRavia, Jackson, Jemison

• JACKSON with a couple of really nice drive and finishes here early

  • Follows it up with a C&S 3PM

  • Shooting 36% from 3 on really good volume

• LARAVIA has been pretty aggressive off the bounce

  • He has done some really nice things but just haven’t finished off plays by making the shot

• JEMISON has been ACTIVE, VERY active

  • Skill level just isn’t really there

• STEVENS just going to take the game over, I guess

  • Been an absolute dunk fest for him in the 1st quarter

  • Just bullying his way to the rim in the HC

• PIPPEN JR. with some very active hands defensively (had LOTS of impactful defensive plays)

  • Showing some stuff offensively coming out of halftime

  • Including a couple 3PM AND a mid range pull up

• GOODWIN has been kind of interesting

• MAOZINHA PEREIRA even getting involved

  • Transition lob finish, hits a 3P to put them up 18

  • Played for the Capitanes in the G League for the majority of the season

  • Now he gets an and-one

  • Good for him, you can see from the emotion from him that this is very meaningful for him