Detroit Pistons: 3 big questions following 2019 NBA All-Star break

2. Will Reggie Jackson keep this up?

Over the last 15 games, Jackson has been better nearly across the board compared to his season-long averages. He’s shooting a better percentage from the floor, but, more importantly, he’s shooting 44.4 percent from 3-point range, which is 7.8 percent than his mark of 36.6 percent on the season. It’s also well above his career average of 32.9 percent. If Jackson is able to keep this level of play up that’s great, but it remains to be seen if he can actually do that.

Jackson’s best season of his career was arguably his first full season in the Motor City, when he averaged 18.8 points, 6.2 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game with a slash line of .434/.353/.864. He’s not putting up the assist or point totals that he was in the past, but they don’t need him to do that with Griffin as the leading man. His efficiency greatly helps the team, rather than taking up shots that could go to Griffin or Drummond.

Jackson has always been an on-ball point guard, which is one of the reasons that his fit alongside Griffin didn’t make a lot of sense. While he still would probably work best coming off the bench as a sixth man with a better shooting point guard alongside Blake, he’s turning himself into a serviceable starting option. If he shows this recent string of performance was just a flash in the pan though, that drastically lowers this team’s ceiling.