Although the Pistons are still hopeless for the playoffs this season, they have been good spoilers in the recent schedule, especially after winning the Green Army, Cavaliers and other teams, the Pistons have won 6 of their last nine games. As a rebuilding team, the Pistons have shown great resilience and rebuilding prospects, and the play of new signing Bagley has become a key part of the Pistons' victory.
As the 2018 top pick, Bagley was seen as the next top 3D when he was in the draft. Bagley's arm span is excellent, he can run and jump, and has a movement speed that is almost at the level of a defender. At that time, people were very optimistic about Bagley's future, otherwise the king would not have chosen Bagley with the eye in hand.
However, after coming to the Kings, Bagley was not highly valued by the Kings, and because the Kings had long regarded Fox as the focus of future training, the team's tactical arrangement had already been placed on the outside line. In the second season of his career, Bagley played only 13 games due to injury, and it was at this time that the Kings made a new adjustment to tactics, and Bagley dropped out of the regular rotation of the team. Although Bagley has been trying to play well since then, he can only watch his teammates on the bench for a long time on the bench.
Compared with the Kings, although the Pistons have been in the process of rebuilding in recent seasons, the team is still very clear about the direction of future reconstruction. Head coach Casey is a very team tactical coach, and after several years of adjustment, the Pistons have gradually determined the tactical core of the future and built the team around several core players. After Bagley came here, instead of continuing to sit on the cold bench, he was stimulated by his physical potential.
Bagley's physical fitness is excellent, but the attack with the ball is not good enough. The Pistons discovered a flaw in Bagley's playing style and instead let him use his ability to run and jump to play more without the ball, which in turn made Bagley more efficient on the offensive end. With the cover of his teammates, Bagley was able to cut more inside and inflict damage under the basket. After moving to the Pistons, Bagley averaged 13.3 points and 6.6 rebounds per game, far more than when he was playing for the Kings.
The Pistons are a defensive team that places a lot of emphasis on the defensive attributes of the players, which just makes Bagley's hidden attributes stimulated. Bagley was a brilliant defender in college, but after joining the Kings, he was overlooked because the team didn't value defense. Now that the Pistons need a defensive player with excellent running and jumping ability, Bagley's arrival has just made up for the lack of the Pistons' ring, and also made Bagley useful.
As Bagley got better, he also gradually became the main rotation of the Pistons. The Pistons now have Cunningham dominating the offense, and Bagley doesn't have to take on much pressure to score, as long as he makes a steady performance when he should be scoring. If he can continue to perform like this, it is likely that in the future he will be one of the core of the Pistons' rebuild with Cunningham.