Detroit Pistons: 4 thoughts about the kids and Blake Griffin’s future

By this point, the Detroit Pistons are clearly in rebuild mode. They won’t win much, but there are questions about this team that must be answered.

The more we learn about the Detroit Pistons, the more questions are uncovered about this 1-7 team. It’s clear that the goal this season was to hit the reset button and forego an emphasis on competitiveness, and it’s long overdue. After embracing mediocrity for so long, this organization needed to strip things down and get their rebuild underway.

So now that the losses are piling up, let’s take stock and evaluate four things about these young (and old) Pistons. We’ll start with something that most people outside of the closest Piston observers won’t know.

1. Saddiq Bey’s unique shooting numbers

There’s no way to just glance at Saddiq Bey’s stats. The rookie for the Detroit Pistons has a stat line that requires a double or triple take the first time you see it. His field goal percentage is most unimpressive at just 36.1 percent, and your first impression is that he is simply a poor-shooting rookie. When you take that second glance and see that his 3-point percentage is 46.1 percent, it’s time to refresh the Basketball-Reference page and make sure it loaded right.

The page loaded right, Bey just shoots 15.0 percent from 2-point range. That’s a 3-for-20 clip that would make Kelly Oubre Jr. blush. Obviously, that is going to come up because dunks and layups exist, so by the season’s end he’ll probably just have a below-average mark from inside the 3-point line. At this point though, it’s a historical artifact that we must observe merely for its unusual nature.

Next up, let’s take a look at how (and when) the Blake Griffin saga in Detroit is likely to end.