He's slow as hell with the ball. His length isn't all that. He's not the 6'7"/6'8" he was billed as in the high school/college days and he looks smaller on the court than his listed height. Can be an okay shooter, has good form. Bad with a capital B volume scorer and number one option, one of the worst (if not the worst) in the NBA who has that distinction on their team. He makes bad passes consistently since his college year, it hasn't changed. For someone who runs point and initiates as frequently as him, that makes winning games tough. He is capable of stabilizing the half-court offense for Detroit. He has some craftiness and headiness to his game. Poor defender, but don't watch him enough to say he's a poor team defender. Mediocre rebounder. Three years in a row he's been a bad volume three point shooter, not a good look for a skill of his that is supposedly a swing skill.
Yeah, I just don't know with Cade. He's an okay player, however I don't see an avenue where he's a number one option on a team that makes a playoff push (to be fair to him, he has to be that for his team at the moment based on their roster). That kinda hurts Detroit. If he were in the playoffs and teams were focused on stopping him ..? My goodness, I think his weaknesses would be even more visible than they are now. If Cunningham was the secondary creator, that would improve his game imo. Pistons haven't had a good enough table-setter point guard for that happen at this point and I dunno if that idea has begun to sprout in the locker room/behind the scenes to make that adjustment feasible to begin with.
With this said... Pistons could still turn things around and make a run for a play-in game this year. They have the pieces in place to make it happen and have battled a fair amount of injury thus far.