The Detroit Pistons are determined to get again into the Japanese Convention recreation. After years of mediocrity, the workforce is hoping one in every of its key younger gamers can step as much as the plate.
The Pistons have chosen a number of lottery picks in recent times. Considered one of them has the potential to popping out this season.
“After a yr the place the previous lottery choose was shuffled round when it comes to minutes, function and even on-court tasks, (Jaden) Ivey is now able to enter his third yr lastly with some stability connected to his identify,” writes Morten Stig Jensen of Forbes.
“The athletic 6-foot-4 guard has all of the bodily instruments you want from a hard-hitting, high-scoring two-way guard, and his latest previous suggests he may explode onto the scene for the 2024-25 season.”
Ivey was chosen with the fifth general choose within the 2022 NBA Draft. The previous Purdue star entered the league with excessive hopes from the Pistons group. In two seasons with the workforce, the purpose guard is averaging 15.8 factors, 4.5 assists and three.4 rebounds on 42.2% three-point capturing and 33.6% three-point capturing.
At 22, Ivey nonetheless has loads of room to develop, however he is proven indicators of the potential he was drafted for. If the third-year participant can put all of that collectively, he may turn out to be a star for the Pistons sooner or later.
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