Two days ago, in the game of the Pistons playing the Hawks, the Pistons small guard Flynn suddenly broke out, shooting 18 of 25, 5 of 9 three-pointers, 9 of 12 free throws, and scoring a career-high 50 points, shocking the whole United States! Many people are sighing, where did this little guard come out, and the Pistons are still such a powerful character? The current Pistons team, whether it is CC Cunningham, or Ivey, Wiseman, None of these high-ranking rookies have scored 50 points, and Flynn, as a substitute, suddenly broke out and scored such a high score, which is really shocking!
But fleeting examples, which are also common in the NBA, seem to have a bit of that meaning from Flynn. No, in today's Pistons loss to the Nets, Flynn was "beaten back to square one". He played 14 minutes off the bench, shooting 1-of-7 from the field and 1-of-5 from three-point range, scoring just three points, diching out five assists and committing one turnover. And Flynn picked up five fouls in 15 minutes, which was a bit too fast. In fact, before this game, Flynn only scored 3 points on 0-of-12 shooting in the last game, that is to say, after 50 points, he shot 1-of-19 in two consecutive games, and his hand felt like it fell to the freezing point. In this game, the Pistons collapsed in the final quarter, scoring only 20 points in the final quarter, allowing the Nets to score 38 points, and finally lost 103-113. The Pistons suffered a four-game losing streak and the Nets won two in a row.
So, is this Flynn a malleable talent or a mediocre person? The author believes that his potential can still be tapped. Flynn, the 29th pick in the first round in 2020, was drafted by the Raptors and traded to the Knicks last December and to the Pistons in February. Flynn has a certain level of scoring in the NCAA, and during his time with the Raptors, he had a 27-point performance in a single game, and he also came off the bench to get it. In the first three years of his career, he averaged 7.5, 4.3, and 4.5 points per game. During the Knicks era, Thibodeau didn't use young people, so he didn't get much of a chance at all.
Now, coming to the Pistons, Flynn's explosiveness and precision shooting have put him in the sights of Coach Monty Williams. The Pistons' guard line, there are a lot of blacksmiths, Cunningham's shooting percentage itself is not high, but it is not very iron, Ivey is a famous blacksmith with poor shooting, and Hayes, who was abandoned by the Pistons before, is also a full blacksmith. Susser, who was selected by the Pistons with the 25th pick in the first round this year, did not shoot well, and he was also a guard with a height of 188cm. In addition, now Roden, Nowell, and Boheim on the Pistons bench, these are all guards, and it can be said that the guard line is too bloated to be used at all.
In this case, Flynn can seize the fleeting opportunity to score 50 points, creating the second-highest single-game scoring off the bench in NBA history, second only to Crawford's 51 points, which is too showy, now not only the Pistons, other teams, media, reporters, will pay attention to Flynn's next performance, and the opponents who are on the opposite side of him will also want to "touch" him to see how good this new 50-point gentleman is. Therefore, in today's game, we saw that the Nets' two Lakers veterans Schroder and Lonnie Walker took turns to "teach" Flynn, Schroder shot 8 of 10, 1 of 2 three-pointers, 7 of 8 free throws, and cut 24 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, while Lonnie Walker came off the bench for 11 minutes, scored 3 points and 1 rebound on 1 of 2 shots, and defended Flynn with 0 of 3 shots.
After slashing 50 points, he only scored 3 points today! The youngster returned to mediocrity, and the Lakers guards continued to teach him lessons! People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and the NBA is the same. The young player Flynn still has a chance to play, after all, the NBA has been in history for so many years, and those who have scored 50 points in a single game add up to no more than 150 people in total, and ESPN counted in 2021, and the data at that time was 138 people. So, no matter what, no matter what the future holds, the name of the little-known young player Flynn has been marked by the NBA's history.