OT: Andre Drummond 19.4 RPG
He has 4 straight 20+ rebound games, (3 20/20's in a row before last night), 5 of his 8 games have been 20 rebounds or more, his lowest rebound total has been 12. He is averaging 22.7 rebounds so far in the month of November.
Additionally, his FT% is up to 66.7 % which is very impressive considering where he has been in his career. 1.8 steals a game, 2.5 blocks a game and 56% from the field on more usage so far this year..
He has been playing out of his mind, statistically. When Griffin gets back, he, Rose and Griffin are going to make quite a 3 man rotation.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:16 AM ^
Those 3 guys are going to rotate?
November 5th, 2019 at 11:16 AM ^
Cool. Who's that? Does he play in an organized college or pro league for a team I might have heard of even if I'm not a fan of that particular team?
November 5th, 2019 at 11:18 AM ^
I thought he was a musician
November 5th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
Drummond is the artist formerly known as Phil Collins.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:19 AM ^
So is a bye week open season on OTs about random thoughts for Detroit sports?
November 5th, 2019 at 11:21 AM ^
Props to him on improving. Sadly without BG they’re still a fringe bottom 10 team in the league.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:32 AM ^
the first name that my brain presented to me was "Ben Gordon"
November 5th, 2019 at 11:35 AM ^
Brandon Graham is my BG
November 5th, 2019 at 12:53 PM ^
Pretty sure he's talking about Ben Gedeon actually.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
That's impressive.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
Andre Drummond would have fit in well in the NBA 15 years ago.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:39 AM ^
Yes he would have. The league has evolved so much where a back to the basket 5 or even a 5 who jut rebounds and plays the pick and roll isn’t valuable anymore. 20 years ago the 5 was mostly that with the 4 being the athletic back to the basket scorer (Duncan, Malone, Webber, young KG). Now the 5 is basically what a stretch 4 was 10-15 years ago and the 4 is what the 3 was. If you can’t stretch the floor at all, or are not a skilled versatile player down low, you really have minimal value in today’s NBA
November 5th, 2019 at 11:35 AM ^
With stats like that, they should name an Island after him.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:37 AM ^
I hope he keeps it up and some other teams pays him a ton of money in the off-season. Good stats on a bad team. Maybe they can get some value for him around the trade deadline if he's not in their future plans. I personally wouldn't re sign him, the Pistons need a complete rebuild and not being the 7-8 seed every year.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:51 AM ^
NBA related...Jordan Poole with a sweet move.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:58 AM ^
Nice move! Just don't show his other shots from the game - he ended up 3-16 overall and 2-9 from 3. :(
November 6th, 2019 at 12:12 AM ^
Shooting 27 percent overall on the season now.
November 5th, 2019 at 11:51 AM ^
You just know that Tom Gores is gonna screw this up and sign Drummond to a max deal next summer when nobody else will. That will set back the necessary Pistons tank and rebuild another 5-7 years!!
November 5th, 2019 at 11:56 AM ^
The FT number is far, far more significant than the RB number. Drummond will always be a rebound vacuum, but he is a limited player, and the FT% is a huge component of that.
It's not clear to me that a top-4 seed team can be built with Drummond as a starter. I'd love to be wrong, but we all saw what happened in the playoffs last year. Or rather, most of us didn't see because it was over so quickly. Drummond is simply not a player that frightens top teams.
The Pistons are hopelessly mediocre. Not bad enough to tank, not good enough to ever be good.
In this context the effort Blake has put in to excel when he's on the floor has been admirable; a true professional.
November 5th, 2019 at 2:20 PM ^
Without question.
My gut tells me he is playing over his head for his next big payday.
If Gores ends up maxing him out, this franchise will be stuck.
Rebounds, IMO, are a very overrated stat in today's NBA. It's all about perimeter scoring and spacing the floor. Drummond does not do that.
November 5th, 2019 at 3:31 PM ^
Rebounding has value because it ends the offensive possession and extends their own offensive possession. Dre is tops in both offensive and defensive rebound %. One of the main four factors into winning games is offensive rebounding %. Dre got that on a lockdown.
November 5th, 2019 at 12:01 PM ^
Contract year.
November 5th, 2019 at 12:02 PM ^
The Pistons are mediocre. M Football is already eliminated from the playoff chase. The Lions are... the Lions, naturally sporting a 3-4-1 record. The Wings totally stink, as discussed below.. People are talking about M basketball being a bubble team. M hockey was picked to finish in the bottom half of the B1G and has played like those predictions are fair. The Tigers just finished last in the league, and M baseball lost most of the key pitching that carried them to the last possible game last year. No Winter Olympics, either, and we're not in a World Cup qualifying cycle.
It's gonna be a long, cold, dark winter.
November 5th, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
He is a losing basketball player. Teams that are competing for a championship don't want players like him. Stats can be misleading.
November 5th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
He’s played very well thus far, but his 4 turnovers a game are an important mention. He’s made some costly turnovers this year in big moments as has the whole team. Him and Rose have been catalysts, but also infuriating at times with ball security. I’m sure a lot of that is a product of being tired from being asked to play nearly 40 min. a game due to injuries and an unfamiliar expanded role, but the Pistons and Dre need to get that squared out.
November 5th, 2019 at 3:19 PM ^
The turnovers are probably a direct result of his increased usage, which is pretty much out of necessity with our injuries.
November 5th, 2019 at 12:39 PM ^
Glad his FT% is up, but I still want to see an NBA player adopt the Rick Barry underhand style.
November 5th, 2019 at 1:51 PM ^
Trade him now for a bunch of garbage...it’s the Pistons (Detroit really) thing to do. Or, just pick up a bunch of garbage and draft nobody (although I think we’ve been screwed in draft position a number of times over the years).
November 5th, 2019 at 3:24 PM ^
He is criticized far too much by Pistons fans IMO. He’s an elite rebounder, maybe the best of his generation. He’s limited for sure. He’s a better version of Deandre Jordan. The issue is that Drummond is the second best player on the team when Griffin is healthy. Jordan was the 4th-5th best player on most of his teams, so he’s not nearly criticized as much.
That said, I hope we don’t give him a max contract. It’s time to rebuild as Griffin isn’t going to be healthy long term, so I doubt we’re able to compete for playoff spots after this year. We have some solid building blocks in Kennard and Doumbouya and could pair that with a few top 8 draft picks to see what we’ve got.
November 5th, 2019 at 3:25 PM ^
I believe it's a contract year for him
November 5th, 2019 at 3:32 PM ^
His rebounding numbers are pretty much in line with his career numbers so not really
November 5th, 2019 at 4:44 PM ^
This would be a cool stat if it was still 2004.
November 5th, 2019 at 5:39 PM ^
Pistons blow. Such a dishonest product to charge as much as they do for that trash. Apathy speaks volumes
November 5th, 2019 at 7:32 PM ^
Good. Trade Drummond while he's on a hot streak.