James Gives High Praise to Cavs Coach David Blatt

Somehow, though, the Timberwolves have consistently had the Pistons’ number in recent years. We wanted to find a way to get a win tonight. “We’ve got veterans on that unit that know how to win”. They gave up at least 100 points every game except for the Lakers who scored 97.

Drummond has been the biggest story during Detroit’s encouraging start. Tristian Thompson also called the team soft.

Horford scored 18 points for the Hawks.

Despite making 11 of his 21 field-goal attempts in a 30-point performance, James was unable to lead his team to victory, as Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond (25 points, 18 rebounds) and point guard Reggie Jackson (23 points, 12 assists) both turned in huge performances. As of early Wednesday, DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles Clippers was a distant second at 12.9 per game.

Van Gundy and the Pistons adjusted in the second half, running multiple guys at James to force him to pass, and watching as his teammates missed wide-open looks. The power forward averaged 17.2 points and 15.1 shots through the first 10 games….

Knicks 102, Hornets 94 – Rookie Kristaps Porzingis scored a season-high 29 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for host NY. As can be expected of a Van Gundy team, their defense is a thing of high art, and the offense displays a very satisfying calculus of space.

Before the game, Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy said he sat down with Jackson to go over film from last season when he excelled down the stretch.

But this was just a regular season game in November. The extent of that potential was not in question-the 22-year-old Pistons center had done a pretty good impression of Dwight Howard through his first three seasons.

Ricky Rubio was back in the lineup for Minnesota after missing four games – all Wolves losses – with a left hamstring strain. Then they beat Cleveland.

With Brandon Jennings and Jodie Meeks injured, Detroit’s depth is not all it could be, but the Pistons have been solid defensively, and the presence of Drummond enables them to limit second chances by the opposition. I thought those guys came with a objective.

There was been so much made of the Pistons moving downtown. Detroit still has to show it can play consistently through an 82-game schedule, but there are a number of positive signs so far.

“We took the day off from the court, but we didn’t take the day off from the film room”, James said. Finally, Drummond is 13th in the league with a 24.80 player efficiency rating, which is the record of a player’s total positive impact in a game. As ESPN’s Marc Stein reported during last season’s National Basketball Association Playoff run, “There was James, in one instance I witnessed from right behind the bench, shaking his head vociferously in protest after one play Blatt drew up in the third quarter of Game 5, amounting to the loudest nonverbal scolding you could imagine – which forced Blatt, in front of his whole team, to wipe the board clean and draw up something else”, Stein reported.