Other than envious year-round weather and a gluttony of local celebrity so-and-so’s, the cities of Detroit and Los Angeles also share another trait: rim running big men.
DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles Clippers and Andre Drummond of your Detroit Pistons are both athletic non-shooting bigs but only one, Jordan, played for a top-10 half-court offense last year.
Drummond averaged three more points (15 to 12) than his Clippers counterpart but took almost four more shots per game to do so. Jordan, not surprisingly, shot 64-percent from the field compared to Drummond’s 53-percent despite an overwhelming majority of shot attempts coming from the same spot on the court:
The glaring comparison between the two similarly skilled big men has been made ad nauseam but it’s June and the Pistons’ season has been over for almost two months, what else do you have to do?